Posted on 06/07/2009 8:49:32 AM PDT by JoeProBono
The young British schoolgirl who was the inspiration for John Lennon's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is facing a stormy future as she battles an incurable disease. Now the slain Beatle's oldest son, Julian Lennon, has come to the aid of Lucy O'Donnell Vodden, a girl he had played with at nursery school and whom he had drawn a picture with stars around her head. Julian showed the picture to his dad, saying, "That's Lucy in the sky with diamonds." It prompted Lennon to pen the hit song. O'Donnell, 46, is suffering from lupus, a painful autoimmune disease. When Julian initially heard of her illness, he sent flowers to her home. "I've been able to help out a bit. I was so upset to hear what had happened," he told the Sunday Times of London. "It was lovely of Julian," said Lucy, who has only seen him once, 23 years ago, since they were in nursery school.
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So I guess that debunks the L.S.D. theory.
My sister has Lupus.
Godspeed.
I always thought it was about drugs. Or are they rewriting history again?
Screwy disease. Symptoms are all over the place and always shifting. She was diagnosed at least 20 years ago. Lately its thyroid problems that top the list.
Picture yourself in a boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies.
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,
And she's gone.
I’m sorry for your sister, that has to be a horrible disease to deal with since it has so many manifestations.
I don’t understand. Why can’t the song be about both?
John said a long time ago his son brought him that drawing of Lucy in the sky with diamonds and he came up with the song from there.
Nancy Sinatra's Sugartown is also one of those double meaning songs.
Lucy Vodden, 43, was at nursery school in Weybridge with Julian Lennon
The painting that inspired the song Julian later confirmed this: "I don't know why I called it that or why it stood out from all my other drawings, but I obviously had an affection for Lucy at that age. "I used to show dad everything I'd built or painted at school, and this one sparked off the idea for a song about Lucy in the sky with diamonds." Beatles biographers and account by band members confirm that she is the most likely source of the song.
How fricking cool would it be to have a song written about you by the Beatles?
How can you say that?
The Paul is Dead rumor proved true
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