Posted on 09/28/2009 9:44:56 AM PDT by Borges
LONDON – Lucy Vodden, who provided the inspiration for the Beatles' classic song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," has died after a long battle with lupus. She was 46.
Her death was announced Monday by St. Thomas' Hospital in London, where she had been treated for the chronic disease for more than five years, and by her husband, Ross Vodden. Britain's Press Association said she died last Tuesday. Hospital officials said they could not confirm the day of her death.
Vodden's connection to the Beatles dates back to her early days, when she made friends with schoolmate Julian Lennon, John Lennon's son.
Julian Lennon, then 4 years old, came home from school with a drawing one day, showed it to his father, and said it was "Lucy in the sky with diamonds."
At the time, John Lennon was gathering material for his contributions to "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," a landmark album released to worldwide acclaim in 1967.
The elder Lennon seized on the image and developed it into what is widely regarded as a psychedelic masterpiece, replete with haunting images of "newspaper taxis" and a "girl with kaleidoscope eyes."
Rock music critics thought the song's title was a veiled reference to LSD, but John Lennon always claimed the phrase came from his son, not from a desire to spell out the initials LSD in code.
Vodden lost touch with Julian Lennon after he left the school following his parents' divorce, but they were reunited in recent years when Julian Lennon, who lives in France, tried to help her cope with the disease.
He sent her flowers and vouchers for use at a gardening center near her home in Surrey in southeast England, and frequently sent her text messages in an effort to buttress her spirits.
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Very sad. Too young.
No, it took a few years for them to develop a better style.
>>>the girl with kaleidoscope eyes
Are you sure it’s not “The girl with colitis goes by”. I mean really positive?
hmm...I’ll have to listen again.
you can’t buy mp3s of the ORIGINALS of songs as recorded by the Beatles, so here’s William Shatner’s take
>> Do that and the ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’ would be a mind blowing experience.
Maybe that is what caused some teacher to rewrite that song to sing the praises of Barack Godhead Obama.
That would be R.E.M.
"Heeerrrre's Nancy!"
Rain is about LSD
She Said is about LSD
but this is the one song that everyone thinks is about LSD
Does that make you a Lucy-er?
It was politically correct for the entertainment industry to raise up Sean Lennon as the “heir” to the Lennon legacy.
A four year old girl. at that!
No, you remove the prepositions and articles. For instance, we are the USA, not USOA.
Only if this is considered a conspiracy.
John, Julian, and Cynthia are in on it.
Correction, U.S.S.A. All hail Obama.
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