It was taken, verbatim, from the name John's four-year-old son Julian had given to a drawing he made at school (shown below), Lennon claimed Lennon himself had no idea that the title formed the abbreviation LSD until it was pointed out to him by someone else after the album's release. Bob Loblaw from Saratoga, CaJohn Lennon, while never denying that the song itself was inspired by the countless acid trips he had taken, quickly explained that the title, in fact, had been mere coincidence.It's not just fans that didn't believe him: Paul McCartney said it was "pretty obvious" that this song was inspired by LSD. He said, 'It's Lucy in the sky with diamonds.' I thought, 'That's beautiful.' I immediately wrote the song about it." Lennon affirmed this on the Dick Cavett Show, telling the host, "My son came home with a drawing of a strange-looking woman flying around. Every time after that though I would look at the titles to see what it said, and usually they never said anything." It's like there will be things on this one, if you fiddle about with it. I don't look - I mean I never play things backwards. He added: "I didn't even see it on the label. In 1971 Lennon told Rolling Stone that he swore that he had no idea that the song's initials spelt L.S.D. Many people thought this was about drugs, since the letters "LSD" are prominent in the title, and John Lennon, who wrote it, was known to drop acid. Richardson died in June 2005 at the age of 47 of breast cancer. Lennon re-connected with her after she appeared on a BBC broadcast where she stated: "I remember Julian and I both doing pictures on a double-sided easel, throwing paint at each other, much to the horror of the classroom attendant… Julian had painted a picture and on that particular day his father turned up with the chauffeur to pick him up from school."Ĭonfusion over who was the real Lucy was fueled by a JDaily Mail article that claimed the "Lucy" was Lucy Richardson, who grew up to become a successful movie art director on films such as 2000's Chocolat and 2004's The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers. The identity of the real Lucy was confirmed by Julian in 2009 when she died of complications from Lupus. He had sketched in some stars in the sky and called it Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds." It was in a 1975 interview that Lennon said, "Julian came in one day with a picture about a school friend of his named Lucy. The "Lucy" who inspired this song was Lucy O'Donnell (later Lucy Vodden), who was a classmate of John's son Julian Lennon when he was enrolled at the private Heath House School, in Weybridge, Surrey.
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