As far as I'm concerned, Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is one of the greatest albums of all time. I'm not the only one who thinks so. Van's label didn't promote the album back in '68, so it was never performed live until last week at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Wish I was there.

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Ballerina, live at The Hollywood Bowl

This is a welcomed opportunity for me to perform these songs the way I originally intended them to be. It's about the world of creation and of the imagination: That is what a song is, a little movie with melodies and music built around it, poetry in moving pictures in the mind... In the 60's and 70's the record companies did not support the music, so I never got to take these songs on tour, and I certainly did not have the money to do it. These songs are as timeless and fresh right now as the day they were written and I am happy about taking them to the Hollywood Bowl.

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