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Die-cut slipcase. Video The Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds The Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Copyright - 1967 EMI Records Ltd. 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' is a song written mainly by John Lennon (credited to Lennon/McCartney) and recorded by The Beatles for their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Julian's drawing According to the Beatles, one day in 1966 Lennon's son, Julian, came home from nursery school with a drawing he said was of his classmate, a girl named Lucy. Showing the artwork to his father, young Julian described the picture as 'Lucy — in the sky with diamonds.'

Julian later said, 'I don't know why I called it that or why it stood out from all my other drawings, but I obviously had an affection for Lucy at that age. I used to show dad everything I'd built or painted at school, and this one sparked off the idea for a song about 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds'.' His son's artwork appears to have inspired Lennon to draw heavily on his own childhood affection for Lewis Carroll's 'Wool and Water' chapter from Through the Looking-Glass. At least one lyric was influenced by both Carroll and skits on a popular British radio comedy programme (The Goon Show) making references to 'plasticine ties', which showed up in the song as 'Plasticine porters with looking glass ties'. A parody of 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star', recited by the Mad Hatter, appears in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Carroll's work has also been cited as having influenced Lennon's 'I Am the Walrus' which refers to a character from Through the Looking-Glass and his two books, In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works. Who was Lucy?

Cyberghost Software. The Lucy referred to in the song was probably a classmate of Julian's at Heath House School named Lucy O'Donnell, born in Weybridge in 1963.[2] She has met up with him on a few occasions in the last few years, and occasionally appears on daytime shows for the anniversary of the 'Sgt. Pepper's' album. She is featured in the book 'A Hard Days Write'. She now lives in Surbiton in Surrey, and owned a nanny agency for children with special needs until she was taken ill with psoriatic arthritis and lupus some years ago.

Reference to drugs and the title of the song While Lennon and the Beatles were often frank about their drug use, for decades they denied that 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' had anything to do with LSD. In a 2004 interview, however, Paul McCartney spoke openly about his Beatles-era drug use, revealing that songs such as 'Day Tripper' and 'Got To Get You Into My Life' were written directly about LSD and marijuana. When questioned about 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,' he noted that Julian's painting had inspired the song, but that it was 'pretty obvious' that the song was about an acid trip.[3] In a 1971 interview, Lennon recalled hearing about how the initials of the title spelled out 'LSD', then checking if the same thing had happened with other Beatles songs and finding 'they didn't spell out anything.' In that same interview, he stated the song was composed in a conscious attempt to craft poetry, and in 1980 he confirmed the images were taken from Alice in Wonderland. In The Beatles Anthology (2000), Ringo Starr claimed he was present when Julian showed his 'crazy little painting'. McCartney recounted the time he and Lennon spent in Lennon's music room, swapping suggestions for lyrics, saying, 'We never noticed the LSD initial until it was pointed out later, by which point people didn't believe us.' [4] Although the Beatles say they did not name the song after LSD, the song was conceived and recorded during a time when the Beatles were experimenting with LSD frequently.