In this imagery, Donovan’s recollection of an irate doper with an attack of the munchies trying to get his chocolate from a vending machine brings to mind Paul Weller’s portrayal of the character in Down in The Tube Station at Midnight (possibly Goodge Street) fumbling with a platform vending machine and ‘pulling out a plum’ (possibly a bar of Cadbury’s chocolate but the exact meaning is unclear, even to the Jam bass player, Bruce Foxton. Astral Weeks Connie Kay drums Barry Kornfeld guitar on The Way Young Lovers Do John Payne flute, soprano saxophone on Slim Slow Slider Warren.
Rather appropriately, a few months later Donovan was the first high-profile British pop star busted for drugs, supposedly leaping naked onto a bemused policeman’s back in the process. Written by: MORRISON GEORGE IVAN Last update on: March 13, 2019. JG James Glennon, 2 heliocentric and bibijeebies like this. It was one of the first British records that mentioned drugs openly - ‘a violent hash-eater’- rather than in code. About the Album: Astral Weeks was the second studio album from Van Morrison, the Northern Irish singer/songwriter who was formerly the pint-sized head thug for the ruffian R&B combo Them EK which achieved immortality with the garage anthem ‘Gloria.’. 1 James Glennon Senior Member Location: Dublin, Ireland It will be hard to beat the Back to Vinyl reissues of Astral Weeks, Moondance and Band & Street Choir from a couple of years ago. Donovan’s impressionistic take on the London scene came out on his Fairytale album in 1965, two or three years earlier than one might imagine from hearing it now, when the assumption might be it was from the first Summer of Love.
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