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A mind-expanding dive into a lost section of 1968, having the famous and forgotten: Vehicle Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, Wayne Brown, and many more. Vehicle Morrison's Astral Weeks can be an iconic rock album shrouded in tale, a masterpiece that has touched generations of listeners and inspired everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Martin Scorsese. In his first reserve, acclaimed musician and journalist Ryan H. Walsh unearths the album's exciting backstory - along with the untold secrets of the time and place that birthed it: Boston 1968. Over the 50th anniversary of this tumultuous yr, Walsh's book follows a crisscrossing solid of musicians and visionaries, artists, and hippie business people, from a Tufts English teacher who walks into employment as a bunch for TV's wildest show (one tv show required two sets, each tuned to a new channel) to the mystically willing owner of radio stop WBCN, who assumed he was the reincarnation of your scientist from Atlantis. Most penetratingly powerful of most is Mel Lyman, the folk-music superstar who determined he was God, then manipulated the lives of his many fans via acid solution, astrology, and an underground papers called Avatar. A mesmerizing group of boldface brands pops to life in Astral Weeks: Wayne Brown quells tensions the night after Martin Luther Ruler, Jr., is assassinated; the real-life crimes of the Boston Strangler come to the movie display screen via Tony Curtis; Howard Zinn testifies for Avatar in the courtroom. From life-changing concerts and chilling crimes, to acid tests and film shoots, Astral Weeks is the trick, wild background of a distinctive time and place.
