“I was trundled home from school and came walking up with one of my watercolor paintings,” Julian recalled years later in an attempt to address popular misconception. I mean, who would ever bother to look at initials of a title? It’s not an acid song.” (Source: All We Are Saying, David Sheff)Ģ) In fact, “Lucy’s” song title was actually inspired by a picture that Lennon’s then four-year-old son, Julian, painted of classmate Lucy O’Donnell. “Until somebody pointed it out, I never even thought of it. “It was purely unconscious that it came out to be LSD,” he insisted. Speculations that the song’s title was a clever mnemonic for the psychedelic drug LSD, and that lyrical content of the song itself detailed the band’s experience with drug experimentation, never quite escaped Lennon, who denied those rumors up until his death in 1980. Here are seven lesser-known facts about the inspiration, composition, and reverberating impact of this rock ‘n’ roll classic, from Lucy in the Mind of Lennon.ġ) It was banned by the BBC (British Broadcasting Company) for what they thought were thinly-veiled drug references. Described by Rolling Stone magazine as “Lennon’s lavish daydream,” everything from “Lucy’s” illusive lyrics to its complex arrangement has enhanced the psychedelic tune’s enduring power – and legacy. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, is probably among one of the most mesmerizing and musically inventive Billboard-toppers of all time. “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” the iconic hit featured on the Beatles’ much-celebrated 1967 album, Sgt.
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