Posted on 09/29/2009 7:18:40 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
LONDON, England (CNN) -- The childhood friend of John Lennon's son who inspired the Beatles' psychedelic masterpiece "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" has died aged 46 from the chronic disease Lupus. Lucy Vodden was a classmate of Julian Lennon, who came home from school one day carrying a drawing of his 4-year-old classmate. "That's Lucy in the sky with diamonds," he told his father. Lennon seized on the image and embellished it in a song along with "newspaper taxis" and a "girl with kaleidoscope eyes." The BBC later banned the track, which appeared on the 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," for its supposed drug reference with the words of the song spelling out LSD.
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I wonder if the missing link will finally die now also. Lucy was nothing more than just a candidate for a good pet.
I liked their early stuff. The things they first recorded in Liverpool. Some other groups were Jerry and the Pacemakers and Peter and Gordon.
I started listening to the beatles when I was 4 years old. They were new. I thought they were awesome possum until I was about forty. Then I decided, I was over them.
YEah, but I didn’t know her. Dead at 46 with lupus is sad. But as Papa Josef said, one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Geez, that would have been a good name for the Grateful Dead about now if Garcia hadn’t died.
Bingo ! And if you understood that you understood the lyrics.
Anyone ever write a song about a lady named Mulva?
That Doctor Roberts sure had some good acid, huh?
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds wasn’t a Beatles’ song.
Paul’s idea was that the band would adopt different personas and write an album of something OTHER than Beatles’ songs.
“Lucy” is by “that group”.
Makes you wonder why someone hasn’t done these lyrics as a rap.
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