1 year, 11 months ago
What is the Beatle's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds REALLY about?
Some say it's about LSD, but the band steadfastly refuses to agree with that - what was it they said it was supposed to be about?
What do YOU think it's about?
What do YOU think it's about?
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Well one day, when he was about four years old, young Julian Lennon came home from school with a picture he had made. Papa Lennon really liked this one and asked young Julian what it was.
"Why Papa", responded young Julian, "can't you see that's a picture of Lucy in the sky, with diamonds?"
"Well of course it is", responded Papa John, and from that moment on, the story of how Lucy in the sky got both her name and her diamonds was written in stone.
So far as we know, John Lennon first told that story during an interview with Playboy magazine in 1980, and neither he nor any of the Beatles have ever strayed. That's their story and they're sticking to it.
In the song, the "Lucy" from Julian's picture is in the sky watching over all of them, and the individual in the boat is Alice form "Alice in Wonderland". John also mentions a foreshadowing of being saved by a girl with kaleidoscope eyes, who turns out in real life to be Yoko.
http://books.google.com/books?id=TBHw1dtlVKQC&pg=PA49&dq=lucy+in+the+sky&ei=o4wjTPfkKJ2yNKuXuJgH&cd=9#v=onepage&q=lucy%20in%20the%20sky&f=false
Many thought the song was about LSD, including the BBC who refused to play it at first.
I admit the song is a bit trippy, but no more so than many others of the time. I think I believe John, Paul, George and Ringo on this one.
"Why Papa", responded young Julian, "can't you see that's a picture of Lucy in the sky, with diamonds?"
"Well of course it is", responded Papa John, and from that moment on, the story of how Lucy in the sky got both her name and her diamonds was written in stone.
So far as we know, John Lennon first told that story during an interview with Playboy magazine in 1980, and neither he nor any of the Beatles have ever strayed. That's their story and they're sticking to it.
In the song, the "Lucy" from Julian's picture is in the sky watching over all of them, and the individual in the boat is Alice form "Alice in Wonderland". John also mentions a foreshadowing of being saved by a girl with kaleidoscope eyes, who turns out in real life to be Yoko.
http://books.google.com/books?id=TBHw1dtlVKQC&pg=PA49&dq=lucy+in+the+sky&ei=o4wjTPfkKJ2yNKuXuJgH&cd=9#v=onepage&q=lucy%20in%20the%20sky&f=false
Many thought the song was about LSD, including the BBC who refused to play it at first.
I admit the song is a bit trippy, but no more so than many others of the time. I think I believe John, Paul, George and Ringo on this one.
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Oh, sorry, that's rocking horse people eating marshmellow pies.
Yum!
Here is a copy of the actual drawing (or at least Snopes.com says it is the actual drawing) that Julian Lennon made of his friend Lucy O'Donnell.
Interesting - I had not heard that story (in fact, I may be confusing it with Strawberry Fields). I also agree tho, that a lot of the imagery is pretty psychedellic: marshmellow people, flowers growing incredibly high, newspaper taxi's etc.
Then AGAIN, from a child's perspective, it's all quite normal - especially from an imaginative child's point of view...
I'm with you. I think it is trippy because it is written from the point of view of a child's dream, which really is not grounded in reality.