One of my favourite music albums is Van Morrison's Astral Weeks. He was asked in an interview how he felt about the fact that many of his fans found this album to be a channelling, transcendent epic that changed their lives. His answer: "Well, it didn't change mine."
I particularly like...well, I like it all, every sound and word, but a favourite few lines are from the song Sweet Thing:
"& we shall walk and talk in gardens all wet with rain
and I will never ever ever grow so old again."
Both the original album and the live one performed 40 years later are equally remarkable bites of genius. He gets a real 'sway' going in the live version that's really more like scat singing than scat singing. It's intoxicating.
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