It was the first time I had been there, and I was sitting in this hotel and all these things were going through my head, and I had a flash about an actress in an opera house appearing in a ballet, and I think that's where the song came from." ( Them played The Fillmore in San Francisco on June 23, 1966.) Morrison commented to Ritchie Yorke about his inspiration for the song: "I was in San Francisco one time in 1966 and I was attracted to the city. Them guitarist Jim Armstrong remembers rehearsing and playing the song for the first time at the Waikiki Shell in Hawaii. Morrison wrote "Ballerina" upon first meeting his future wife, Janet (an actress and model), when touring the U.S. "Ballerina" was recorded during the last Astral Weeks session on October 15, 1968, at Century Sound Studios in New York City. " Ballerina" is the second to last song on Astral Weeks, the 1968 album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison.
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