First performance: Octoin San Francisco, US.Warren Smith, Jr. – percussion, vibraphone.It’s one of those songs where you can see the light at the end of the tunnel and that’s basically what the song says.” Morrison told Steve Turner that he was working on the song back in Belfast in 1966 when he visited painter Cecil McCartney who had drawings on astral projection “and that’s why I called it “Astral Weeks”. I remember reading about you having to die to be born.
Morrison described the song “Astral Weeks” as being: “like transforming energy, or going from one source to another with it being born again like a rebirth. John Payne, the flautist who had been working with Morrison, said it was the first time he had ever heard it, and that although the song may sound rehearsed it was actually captured from the only take.
On the first recording session for the album on 25 September 1968, this song was the last of four recorded for that date. The title song and opening track on the 1968 album Astral Weeks.
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