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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

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About "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

From the original Beatles Album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967)

JOHN 1980: "My son Julian came in one day with a picture he painted about a school friend of his named Lucy. He had sketched in some stars in the sky and called it 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,' Simple. The images were from 'Alice in Wonderland.' It was Alice in the boat. She is buying an egg and it turns into Humpty Dumpty. The woman serving in the shop turns into a sheep and the next minute they are rowing in a rowing boat somewhere and I was visualizing that. There was also the image of the female who would someday come save me... a 'girl with kaleidoscope eyes' who would come out of the sky. It turned out to be Yoko, though I hadn't met Yoko yet. So maybe it should be 'Yoko in the Sky with Diamonds.' It was purely unconscious that it came out to be LSD. Until somebody pointed it out, I never even thought it, I mean, who would ever bother to look at initials of a title? It's NOT an acid song. The imagery was Alice in the boat and also the image of this female who would come and save me-- this secret love that was going to come one day. So it turned out to be Yoko... and I hadn't met Yoko then. But she was my imaginary girl that we all have."

PAUL circa-1994: "I went up to John's house in Weybridge. When I arrived we were having a cup of tea, and he said, 'Look at this great drawing Julian's done. Look at the title!' So I said, 'What's that mean?' thinking Wow, fantastic title! John said, 'It's Lucy, a freind of his from school. And she's in the sky.' ...so we went upstairs and started writing it. People later thought 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' was LSD. I swear-- we didn't notice that when it first came out."

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Wonderful
Sounds new to me..
#7 - achat - 07/20/2010 - 07:25
wow
just imagine if little julian did not draw that picture we would no have one of the greatest rock songs of all time. Thanks Julian.
#6 - Christian - 04/29/2010 - 03:23
wow
just imagine if little julian did not draw that picture we would no have one of the greatest rock songs of all time. Thanks Julian.
#5 - Christian - 04/29/2010 - 03:22
si
lucy
#4 - LUCY MENDEZ - 04/16/2010 - 20:00
(:
Wow, this song is just so amazing!!
#3 - Leslie - 02/26/2010 - 01:43
still thinking it´s LSD that´s why I like it.
#2 - hector - 01/17/2010 - 04:58
Lucy
So beautiful and imaginative....John and Paul remain unsurpassed as songwriters.
#1 - Alex - 10/26/2009 - 23:17
Great Song
Amazing Song and become more beautiful now I'm know the history about it.
#0 - Daniel - 04/07/2009 - 03:52
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