The lyric went straight to my soul, it was immediately clear to me that he was being born again. He sat on a stool in Ace studios and played “Astral Weeks”, and it took me 30 seconds to know. Van had signed to Warners but no producer wanted to touch him, so I went to Boston at Bob’s request to hear him. LEWIS MERENSTEIN: Van’s manager Bob Schwaid and I were friends. Considering how revered the album Astral Weeks has become, it’s amazing that it was put together in just 12 or 13 hours. And of those dates, one of them only yielded one song. Just three dates in the studio was all it took. Astral Weeks producer Lewis Merenstein and guitarist Jay Berliner recounted the magic of those particular sessions. In 2015, Uncut magazine connected with a number of the people who helped create Van Morrison’s most memorable recordings.
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