"Lupus? Is it Lupus??"
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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There was no cohesion to the White Album, it was just a bunch of drug-induced ramblings thrown together in no logical pattern. Yes, there are a few good songs, but most of it is noise.
It was also the last thing they recorded as a band. I was a junior in high school and bought it the day it came out. The dude next to me in homeroom told me it was supposed to be coming into the Hatboro Music Shop and I went that afternoon and picked it up.
You didn’t have to hear a Beatles album to decide whether or not to buy it. You just bought it, brought it home, put it on your meatgrinder record player, and enjoyed a whole new bunch of great music.
Those were the days.
Prayers for her health.
Thanks. I enjoyed watching that.
Double Fantasy was one of the happiest records I've heard, especially, as you say, in light of Lennon's 'complexity' -- i.e. his perpetual pissing and moaning. Great record, excellent guitar playing, lots of whimsy and the joy of fatherhood was positively inspiring.
That record and "The Jealous Kind" by Delbert McClinton, and later Steve Winwood's "Arc of Diver" set the stage for a very happy decade. At least, they did for me.
I concede the point.
It’s kind of likely the kid did draw the picture, make the statement and his higher than a kite Dad put two and two together in his drug induced haze..... so both stories are true. Ya think?
That was debunked years ago.
I think there was a time when composers experimented with halucinogens to heighten creativity, for sure.
100% agree. I just wish they’d rethought the inclusion of “Octopus’s Garden.”
OG is a fun song to play actually. My grandson loves when I strum and sing my rendition for him.
I'm not a musician, so I can't really assess it from that standpoint. I'll keep that in mind, and the next time I listen to it I'll pay closer attention to the musicianship. It's just so hard to block out the awful lyrics!
LOL...I didn’t say it was a musical masterpiece or even hard to play (its not) but just that it is fun with the youngin (just as Rocky Raccoon, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, Bungalow Bill are).
Ok, perhaps when the Psalms were written...
Oh, I get it! The Beatles version of “Crocodile Rock.”
OMG, Paul is not wearing shoes, and he is out of step with the other three. Take Two.
So does my best friend, she has all sorts of health issues with it.. This is 10 to 1 a woman’s disease. Men normally die in their 30,s from it.
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