LOS ANGELES - Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks" rests high on critics' lists of all-time best albums. Yet Morrison felt he never quite had the chance to get it right the first time. So he has taken a ...

"He didn't use the phrase for a song title until a year later, but 'Astral Weeks' was the album on which Van Morrison fully descended 'into the mystic.' Morrison's first full-fledged solo album ...

When it was first released in 1968, "Astral Weeks" was an unexpected turn, both artistically and commercially, for the 23-year-old Van Morrison. Fans of Morrison's bouncy AM radio smash "Brown Eyed ...

It's strange to imagine a Van Morrison concert without "Brown Eyed Girl," but that was exactly what happened last November, when the Irish-born singer-songwriter played two concerts dedicated to the ...