This turn toward the alt-right didn’t come out of nowhere. 1,” a 28-track double album that includes eyebrow-raising song titles such as “Where Have All the Rebels Gone,” “Why Are You on Facebook?” and “Stop Bitching, Do Something.” This album is now very much news: Variety published a list of “The 10 Craziest Lyrics” from the record, while the Jerusalem Post rounded up all of the claims of anti-Semitism implied in his song called “They Own the Media” and other lyrics scattered throughout. That trend stopped last week, however, when Morrison, 75, released “Latest Record Project, Vol. Australian blues and root band The Revelators covered the song on their 2000 album, The Adventures of The Amazing Revelators.Outside of the circles of his most dedicated fans, the arrival of a Van Morrison album in the 21st century has not been a news event.An electric guitar version of this song also appears on The Authorized Bang Collection (released in 2017), listed as 'Beside You (Take 5).' 'Beside You' was featured on Morrison's album Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl, released in 2009 to celebrate forty years since Astral Weeks was first released.Īn alternate version of 'Beside You' (6:05) appears on the album Bang Masters (recorded in 1967, released in 1991), featuring Van Morrison on electric guitar rather than an acoustic. Robert Pattinson of Twilight fame, when asked in an interview what his favourite song was, replied that it was 'Beside You'. Singer-songwriter Elvis Costello has identified this song as one of his favourites, featuring on one of his 500 favourite albums. Broken Arrow, possibly his fantasy figure, beckons – innocence led by imagination on the road to experience. The opening image of Little Jimmy shows a child sneaking out of his home, escaping to adventure and a childlike ritual rendezvous. It is sung with a 'hushed wonder' and in it the singer transfers the visions of his own childhood to his son. It's basically a love song, just a song about being spiritually beside somebody.' The child that would have inspired the song was his adopted son by Janet, his wife at that time. Van Morrison remarked on this song: ''Beside You' is the kind of song that you'd sing to a kid or somebody you love.

The song was recorded during the first Astral Weeks recording session at Century Sound Studios in New York City on 25 September 1968 with Lewis Merenstein as producer.

' Beside You' is the second track on Astral Weeks, the 1968 album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and released by Warner Bros.

Astral weeks lyrics van morrison