Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 [Audiobook] download free by Ryan H. Walsh
- Listen audiobook: Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968
- Author: Ryan H. Walsh
- Release date: 2018/10/13
- Publisher: PRENTICE HALL PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780735221345
- Rating: 9.76 of 10
- Votes: 863
- Review by: Bobby Downs
- Review rating: 8.75 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/11
- Duration: 4H31M56S in 256 kbps (73.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-03
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, WMA Lossless, AC3, WMA, MP3, MPEG4, OGG, WAV (compression ZIP, TGZ, CBR, LHA, RAR, TBZ2)
- Total pages original book: 368
- Includes a PDF summary of 34 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 25M14S (6.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more 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 50th anniversary of that tumultuous year, Walsh's book follows a criss-crossing cast of musicians and visionaries, artists and hippie entrepreneurs, from a young Tufts English professor who walks into a job as a host for TV's wildest show (one episode required two sets, each tuned to a different channel) 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, then 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 James Brown quells tensions the night after Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated; the real-life crimes of the Boston Strangler 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. One of LitHub's 15 Books You Should Read This March
- Other categories, genre or collection: History Of The Americas, Music, Biography: Arts & Entertainment, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000
- Download servers: iDope, Dropbox, 4Shared, MEGA, BitShare, Google Drive, FileHosting. Compressed in ZIP, TGZ, CBR, LHA, RAR, TBZ2
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 26.19 USD
- Dimensions: 170x241x30.48mm
- Weight: 589.67g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: United States
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