Ilene Berns worked to have him deported, which prompted the Belfast man to marry his Californian girlfriend Janet Rigsbee, whom he renamed Janet Planet. Then the 38-year-old Berns died of a heart attack, and his widow held Morrison partially responsible. Morrison had a top-40 hit in 1967 with “Brown Eyed Girl” but he fell out with his manager Bert Berns, who wanted more of the same chart-friendly fare. Famed music writer Lester Bangs called it a “mystical document.” Years after Bangs’s endorsement, Bruce Springsteen said: “It made me trust in beauty, it gave me a sense of the divine.” And Martin Scorsese revealed it had been an influence in the making of “Taxi Driver.” Albums like “Moondance” and “Tupelo Honey” quickly put Morrison on the map in the early 1970s, whereas “Astral Weeks” was to grow in stature over a period of decades.
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