Lsd?

i heard that it was about a picture that john son julian wrote.

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If you want to hear what John said about Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, check out the Mike Douglas Show. I'm sure they might have it for rent.

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Is it true that Lucy and sky with diamonds is dedicated to LSD?

[This message has been edited by The_sgtPP (edited September 13, 2000 at 12:20 PM).]

According to John, one day Julian came home from Kindergarten with a picture he had drawn. It was a picture of a girl surrounded by stars. When John asked what Julian called the picture, Julian replied "Lucy in the sky with diamonds", Lucy being a classmate of Julian.

John liked the sound of the picture's title and decided to write a song with that title.

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The first response is correct. Julian made a drawing of Lucy O'Donnel early in 1967, Lucy at that time being 4 years old.

There is a copy of the drawing in the book A Hard Day's Write by Steve Turner.

It shows a girl, a sky and diamonds.

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Originally Posted by FPSHOT

The first response is correct. Julian made a drawing of Lucy O'Donnel early in 1967, Lucy at that time being 4 years old.

There is a copy of the drawing in the book A Hard Day's Write by Steve Turner.

It shows a girl, a sky and diamonds.

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What a great book. I lent that out the other day and let me tell you it's hard not to breathe for a week.

Lucy, the girl who inspired the picture, died recently I think.

But yeah, Julian came home from school one day with a painting he did of a girl in his class floating around with diamonds in the sky. John asked what it was and Julian said "It's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". John loved the name so much he sat down and wrote the lyrics straight off.

There was no intentional reference to drugs whatsoever and when John heard that he was getting flack because the initials spelt out LSD he started checking a load of other song titles to see if the initials spelt anything out.

Originally Posted by Harbidge

Lucy, the girl who inspired the picture, died recently I think.

But yeah, Julian came home from school one day with a painting he did of a girl in his class floating around with diamonds in the sky. John asked what it was and Julian said "It's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". John loved the name so much he sat down and wrote the lyrics straight off.

There was no intentional reference to drugs whatsoever and when John heard that he was getting flack because the initials spelt out LSD he started checking a load of other song titles to see if the initials spelt anything out.

So natural and authentic. Then along come the inevitable unsolicited casual opinion of others, to which we must pay ever-lasting heed. Until we retire, that is. Then every type that used to touch a nerve can dissolve into yesterday.
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aw shucks, i thought this was about LSD

awwwww and me.....

Since they've admitted everything else they did, why would they lie about this one, I've always wondered.

I don't think they did, i think it was just coincidence.

Originally Posted by sadie

I don't think they did, i think it was just coincidence.

That's what I mean--why lie about the little things if you've admitted to the big things, so the drug reference is just somebody else's story. Like the "Paul is dead" thing. (Sorry, Harb.)

Originally Posted by Harbidge

Lucy, the girl who inspired the picture, died recently I think.

But yeah, Julian came home from school one day with a painting he did of a girl in his class floating around with diamonds in the sky. John asked what it was and Julian said "It's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". John loved the name so much he sat down and wrote the lyrics straight off.

There was no intentional reference to drugs whatsoever and when John heard that he was getting flack because the initials spelt out LSD he started checking a load of other song titles to see if the initials spelt anything out.

Lucy is alive and well, i work with her husband
Tony

That's one of the oldest urban legends surrounding the Beatles.

I think the initials spelling L.S.D. theory is bunk, a total coincidence, and there are pictures of John with Julian's drawing that I have seen. But having said that, it seems pretty unlikely to me that John would have written those particular lyrics (the proto-trippiness of IN HIS OWN WRITE notwithstanding) before trying "the dreaded lysergic." Kaleidoscope eyes, looking glass ties, and so forth.

Tony

Tony

Originally Posted by pattiboyd's slave

aw shucks, i thought this was about LSD

for PBS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J1NWG3nyrs&search=LSD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leqSI...ted&search=LSD

Originally Posted by liverpool-lad

Lucy is alive and well, i work with her husband
Tony

I think what brought on the Lucy's Dead thing was this article (click) from June of 2005, about the death of a Lucy O'Donnell Richardson, which includes these two paragraphs:

Richardson's sister MARY FOSTER says, "Lucy remembered the times when she would sit with Julian as he drew pictures.

"She was rather chuffed to realise she had inspired the song title."

Her loved ones sprinkled crystals over her grave in a touching nod to the song which was dedicated to her.

On the basis of that article, I posted this, which includes a few relevant pictures.

Well, the media has been wrong before, such as when they insisted that Jude Law was set to play Brian Epstein in Vivek Tiwary's new movie about Brian.

So who knows? With the Beatles, truth and myth are so tangled at times that much of the myth has now become permanent legend.

According to an email from a new LJ-friend, he, in researching his book, found to his amazement and amusement that, in his words, "everyone who had the remotest connection to the boys has their own agenda in playing up their own role."

His name is Alan J. Porter and he's going to be a guest author at the Chicago Beatlefest this year.

His "Blog, Blog Me Do" made #1 on The Times (UK) list of The Top 5 Beatles Blogs.

Originally Posted by twovirgins

for PBS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J1NWG3nyrs&search=LSD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leqSI...ted&search=LSD

trippy!

I like the stiff upper lip stuffy english voice overs.