RECORDS
As I sit down to write this review, it’s the morning of March 10, 1982. Even casual followers of the news must be aware by now that the End Of The World is hard upon us, due at 3:38 this afternoon, when the dread “Jupiter Effect" planetary alignment begins its assault on Earth’s gravity.
RECORDS
AND REMEMBER, CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS
VAN MORRISON Beautiful Vision (Warner Bros.)
by Richard Riegel
As I sit down to write this review, it’s the morning of March 10, 1982. Even casual followers of the news must be aware by now that the End Of The World is hard upon us, due at 3:38 this afternoon, when the dread “Jupiter Effect" planetary alignment begins its assault on Earth’s gravity.
Obviously I’m not betting on that outcome, but I am certain that two, maybe three months from now, just supposing J-E Day has demolished all our metropolises, and still Van Morrison will come putt-putting down the mountain in his silver BMW some afternoon, his wavy red hair wildly tousled, his nervous eyes darting crazily over the ruined sidewalks of Mill Valley, searching for some trusted musician friends to go into the studio with him, to begin laying down his next album. And Van’ll find just who he wants, among the scrabbling caveman survivors, and in a few more months there will be another new, semi-provocative Van Morrison album to puzzle over.