8/25/2023 0 Comments Van morrison astral weeks we 1768![]() Van had been influenced by the mystic poems of W B Yeats and his young wife Georgie who went by George, and was the catalyst for Yeats automatic writing. Van had himself denied that it has anything to do with a transvestite and spoke of how it was written as stream of consciousness and that it was a sort of composite character. Tell me where he/she fits into the story of this album? This album is about Van and his life and experience of youth and transcendence. ![]() He misinterpreted the line "Playing dominos in drag" and went off on this crazy story about a transvestite. In his twisted and demented state of drug addiction he wrote about things he imagined. The review by Bangs, written back in the day, is a piece of work worthy to be read, but Bangs got it all wrong. I just wanted to point out that Madame George is not about an ageing transvestite. But many people, my college roommates for example just don't get it. I first heard Madame George when I was 16 in 1968 and I still listen to it often. It cannot be easily defined or placed in any specific genre, but rather exists as one of those rare examples of art that come together by some special circumstance. For those of us who get it, this LP is by far the best of all time. There are two kinds of people in the world, those few of us who recognize the brilliance of Van Morrison's Astral weeks and the rest of the world.
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