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During a recent tribute to John Lennon, they replayed footage of him being interviewed on what looked like David Letterman. One day young Jullian Lennon brought home a picture he drew. John says it was called "Lucy in the sky with diamonds" He really liked the name and managed to come up with the later, based on the title.

What came up later was that the title was misconstrued as a drug reference. Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds. LSD.

Of course John said it was a complete suprise to him, and he would up looking at all the rest of his song list. It was a random thing, that people thought he intentionally made. Of course people still believe it today, though it's still a popular myth.

I have heard many who have found a way to believe both the painting story and the LSD story. They claim that while John could have got the name Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds from Julian's painting's name, Julian could have got the name from John and his friends using a codename for LSD to keep Julian from knowing what they were doing. With that in mind, the two stories do not exlude each other. Kainaw 01:12, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Reason for changes....

Paul admitted the true nature of Lucy in the Sky...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5121163

  • I never heard that Lennon denied the song had drug imagery, only that the title was not related to the drug LSD at all. Nothing McCartney says denies that.

Could you sign your posts, please?

  • Lennon denied the song had anything to do with drugs. Anyone familiar with the Beatles knew it was a fib but he plainly decided his life would be easier if he flatly avoided confrontation about it. McCartney waited almost forty years to finally say it was "obvious". The coincidence of Julian's drawing and its title is a bit startling but any alert artist's life is replete with exploitable coincidences ripe for the picking and in 1967 a song with that acronym and those lyrics could only be about one thing. Besides, to wildly speculate only to show how much we don't know, Julian could have "subliminally picked up" on the acronym and the psychedelics swirling around him, and Lennon could have rationalized the creative craftwork he put into the finished song, along with the innocent source of the inspiration to write it, enough to think something along the lines of, "it's about surreal imagry or whatever and the initials'll be a giggle but it's really about seeing things differently, surreality and melodies and wordplay, not fookin' drugs..." Wyss 13:27, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The link about Lucy Richardson's article is broken. Did someone type it wrong? I will delete it. - Gabriel Quinteiro (I'm not registered)

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