'Lucy in the Sky,' that's pretty obvious. In a 2004 interview, Paul McCartney said that the song is about LSD, stating, 'A song like 'Got to Get You Into My Life,' that's directly about pot, although everyone missed it at the time.' 'Day Tripper,' he says, 'that's one about acid. Although Lennon denied this, the BBC banned the song. Shortly after the song's release, speculation arose that the first letter of each of the title's nouns intentionally spelled LSD. Lennon's son, Julian, inspired the song with a nursery school drawing he called 'Lucy - in the sky with diamonds'.

This album became the biggest selling album of the 1960s and remains today the biggest selling studio album in countries including the United Kingdom and India. 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' is a song written primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon-McCartney, for the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)' Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band track listing Lucy in the sky with diamonds, Ah 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile, With Plasticine porters with looking glass ties. The hospital said Monday she died after battling the disease for years. Thomas' Hospital in London, where she was treated. The death of Lucy Vodden at age 46 has been announced by St. Picture yourself on a train in a station, LONDON - The real-life Lucy from the Beatles' song 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' has died after a long fight against lupus. Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies.Įv'ryone smiles as you drift past the flowers,Ĭlimb in the back with your head in the clouds, and you're gone

Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes, and she's gone.įollow her down to a bridge by a fountain, Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly, With tangerine trees and marmalade skies.