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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I heard the interview with Paul last weekend on an ‘all Beatles’ station.
I believe both are true.
It’s about Lucy, but they incorporated all the elements of an acid trip in the lyrics.
“Abbey Road” was the Beatles’ true masterpiece in my opinion and far superior to “Sgt. Pepper’s”.
Lucy’s got some ‘splainin’ to do.
Ok, I’ll buy that.
I think “Revolver” was the best crafted album of all. No filler at all.
Lennon said in his famous interview with Playboy that he wrote the song based on a painting by Julian.
The full interview was later published in a book. Lennon was a very complex man. I was very saddened when he died because at the time of his death he seemed to finally be entering a time in his life where was, for the first time, content and happy with himself and his life.
John Lennon told the same story in 1967.
Agreed. Did you know that that amazing guitar ensemble at the end of the record was recorded by all them at the same time? I mean, it wasn’t tracked and spliced and dubbed - - it was a live recording, one guitar after the other. Un-freaking-real.
So do I.
Macca of course is known as a bassist, but the guy had some serious chops on guitar, he even drummed on a few songs, as I recall when Ringo wasn’t in the studio.
Well sometimes it is...I should know.
McCartney was apparently a good drummer. One time when a reporter asked John Lennon if Ringo was the best drummer in the world, Lennon laughed and replied that Ringo wasn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles.
Sucks doesn’t it?
Its one of those diseases that people really don’t understand so they assume its a made up condition. Personally I suspect its a family of related diseases that are grouped together and called Lupus.
I remember reading that. Side B of “Abbey Road” is, in my opinion, the very best work the Beatles ever did.
McCartney’s first solo album, he played all of the instruments...Amazing.
“Revolver” is my second favorite after “Abbey Road” with “Sgt. Pepper’s” and “Let It Be” tied for third.
I’ve got several rare copies of the “White Album”, including one on white vinyl, but I’ve never really cared for it.
Yep, the White Album has too much shite on it, for the few good songs, a pure exercise in indulgence. Their brains on drugs.
Yes, it does stink. I was ill for years before it was diagnosed. They just kept treating symptoms but no one ever put all those symptoms together. Then I got a solicitation letter from the Lupus Foundation that listed symptoms and I said oh my goodness I have 8 of the 10!. I took the letter into my internist and she made an appt for me with a rheumatologist and we began speaking the same language so to speak. I was finally diagnosed 10 years ago but had been ill for 12 years before that, since right after the birth of our son.
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