Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 by Ryan H. Walsh (2018, Hardback)

Description: This hardcover book titled "Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968" by Ryan H. Walsh is a good read for adults interested in music, history, and biography. Published in 2018 by Penguin Publishing Group, the book has 357 pages and weighs 21.8 oz., and measures 9.6 inches in length, 6.6 inches in width, and 1.1 inches in height. Includes eight pages of black-and-white photos. From the inside jacket copy: Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks" is an iconic rock album shrouded in legend, a masterpiece that has touched generations of listeners and influenced everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Martin Scorsese. In his first book, acclaimed musician and journalist Ryan H. Walsh unearths the album's fascinating backstory - along with the untold secrets of the time and place that birthed it: Boston, 1968. On the fiftieth anniversary of that tumultuous year, Walsh's book follows a crisscrossing cast of musicians and visionaries, artists and hippie entrepreneurs, from a young Tufts professor who walks into a job as a host for TV's wildest show to the mystically inclined owner of radio station WBCN, who believed he was the reincarnation of a scientist from Atlantis. Most penetratingly powerful of all is Mel Lyman, the folk-music star who decided he was God and controlled the lives of his many followers via acid, astrology, and an underground newspaper called "Avatar." A mesmerizing group of boldface names pops to life in "Astral Weeks": Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated; the real-life crimes of the Boston Stranger come to the movie screen via Tony Curtis; Howard Zinn testifies for "Avatar" in the courtroom. From life-changing concerts and chilling crimes to acid experiments and film shoots, "Astral Weeks" is the secret, wild history of a unique time and place.

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