Van Morrison rode out the '70s on a hot sales streak that concluded with 1979's hit Into the Music, but commercial concerns moved to the back burner as the new decade dawned.
In a career that would come to be defined by near-constant change, Van Morrison's fifth studio album found him in the midst of personal as well as creative upheaval.
Lewis Merenstein, the producer who helmed Van Morrison's Astral Weeks and served as executive producer for his Moondance LP, has died at the age of 81.