No Guru, No Method, No Teacher

No Guru, No Method, No Teacher is the sixteenth album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1986 on Mercury. Biographer Clinton Heylin referred to this album by Morrison as "His most consummate record since Wavelength and his most intriguingly involved since Astral Weeks, this is bursting to saturation point, Morrison at this most mystical, magical best." Upon release in 1986, it charted at number twenty-seven in the UK and number seventy on the Billboard 200. The album was recorded at Studio D and Record Plant Studios in Sausalito, California in 1985 with Jim Stern as engineer. The basic takes were recorded at Studio D with Chris Michie, Jef Labes, Baba Trunde, David Hayes and Morrison. Overdubs, guitar solos,...