Editing Astral Weeks (section)

==== "Beside You" ====
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"[[Beside You (Van Morrison song)|Beside You]]", the second song on the album, has been described as "expressionistic poetry and a scattershot collection of images and scenarios".  It begins with the classical guitar of [[Jay Berliner]] and Morrison's voice circling each other.<ref name="HagePage42-43">Hage, (2009) pp. 42–43.</ref> Morrison described it as "the kind of song that you'd sing to a kid or somebody that you love.  It's basically a love song. It's just a song about being spiritually beside somebody."<ref>Yorke, (1975) p. 56.</ref> It was originally recorded for [[Bang Records]] in December 1967. That first recording shows the pop music intentions of [[Bert Berns]] which give it a different sound from the ''Astral Weeks'' recording.<ref name="HagePage42-43"/>