Lucy (in the Sky With Diamonds): Gone

Mark,
Isn't there still a question as to whether the song was really about LSD and not Lucy Vodden?

So you're saying that the drug, LSD, was not the inspiration for "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"? Another urban myth shot down. Or was it?

John Lennon said it was the picture of the little girl that his son drew. Unfortunately, he's been gone nearly 30 years.

Isn't there still a question as to whether the song was really about LSD and not Lucy Vodden?

Posted by: John E | September 28, 2009 2:40 PM

And Paul McCartney was walking barefooted on the cover of Abbey Road because he was really dead and a double stood in for him.

She's still up there, Gents, you just have to wait until, lights are out !! She'll always be there; Lucy in the sky with diamonds !! Unfortunately, the original Lucy, has now joined those diamonds in the sky, with all the other stars, including Mr. Lennon !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

Newspaper taxis, the girl with kaleidoscope eyes, rocking horse people eating marshmallow pies...

Doesn't sound like a drug song to me, nope.

Paulo

You mean they made music before they made video games?

Nope, said the dope !
Bomb, bomb, Iran, said the moron !
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

Poor Pete Best.....

Ringo is the luckiest man alive, an average drummer plucked out of obscurity to back up three of the greatest musicians who ever lived.

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Posted by: Paulo | September 28, 2009 3:11 PM
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Have you never read Lewis Carroll’s ‘Jabberwocky’ or ‘The Hunting of the Snark”? They consist of rhyming nonsense that gives you ideas in spite their facially nonsensical content. You still can get the gist of the story because it gives clues regarding how to interpret the nonsense.
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John Lennon LOVED Lewis Carroll. He’d been doing the same kind of nonsensical word-play since he was a child. His book ‘In His Own Write’ was an expression of it as were his lyrics in songs like ‘I am the Walrus’ and ‘Don’t let me down.’
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You should also notice that Lennon’s lyrics in “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” express very vivid imagery, are clever and rhythmic, and not at all gibberish. That’s a clue that they weren’t conceived while in a state of altered consciousness. The same is true of the fact that the words convey surreal imagery. Surreal art is produced by many people without the aid of drugs. Salvador Dali once said, “I don't do drugs. I am drugs.”
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And, BTW Paolo - when did you take drugs, and particularly LSD - to help you understand that the song was a “drug song”?

People.....The title WAS inspired by the painting Julian made.

The rest of the lyrics, however, were from Lennon's vivid (or induced) imagination.

Sweet, beautiful music.
Another great one from Lennon;
'Dear Prudence'.

John W,

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

Rock on Beatles.

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Posted by: Kenny Bunkport | September 28, 2009 10:12 PM
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I'm sorry that you can't appreciate my rebuttal to Paolo's post because you have the attention span of a starfish.
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In any event, the discussion is between Paolo and I. So just butt out already, will ya?

John W,

Oh please give us your zoology lecture on "the attention span of the starfish," and enlighten us mere mortals, oh transplendent one. Your verbage is boundless and is better than brandy. Ooops, that's another lecture, "Brandy vs. Armengnac: How Churchill and I Differed after All."

As a courtesy, I leave the last word to you, as I know, like a starfish with a lost appendage, you'll come back.

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Posted by: Kenny Bunkport | September 29, 2009 3:29 PM
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Just be glad that Silva didn�t post my eulogy /obit of you after you had banned me from doing it. It was a scream.

John W,

I'm sorry Lucy Vodden wasn't allowed the same courtesy.

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Posted by: Kenny Bunkport | September 29, 2009 7:44 PM
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What a strange and eccentric performance. Only a loony leftie like you could find that I somehow harmed a dead girl by challenging Paolo’s assumption that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds had to be a “drug song.” Keep up the good Kool-Aid ® drinking.