'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' dies

CNN.com ^ | 09/29/09 | Peter Wilkinson

[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.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

"psychedelic masterpiece?".....

IMHO, the song was crap....It made no sense

[ichabod1]

Who cares.

[reagan_fanatic]

"Lupus? Is it Lupus??"

[TexasRepublic]

“It made no sense.”

Many of the Beatles songs did not make lyric sense, but texture of sounds was something new and exciting to listen to. I suppose you don’t like abstract art or even impressionism, either.

[The Louiswu]

The song was a work of art.
A piece of crap to some a masterpiece to others.

[HIDEK6]

Revisionist history.

The song was an LSD anthem.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Who cares?...

Exactly!...The point of posting was to show what CNN.com considers news.....

[randog]

So I suppose the Elton John version didn’t grab ya’ either...;^)

[skeeter]

The yippies think everyone should care as much about the minutia & trivia of their generation as they do.

Although Lucy sounded like a nice gal.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Beatle music left me after they veered hard left to the cabbage patch....

[HerrBlucher]

I think they are Oippies now.

[sticker]

You obviously never heard the William Shatner version on his “album” Transformed Man

[rhombus]

Beatle music left me after they veered hard left to the cabbage patch....

Pre-cabbage patch lyrics:

(if you drive a car, car;) - I'll tax the street;
(if you try to sit, sit;) - I'll tax your seat;
(if you get too cold, cold;) - I'll tax the heat;
(if you take a walk, walk;) - I'll tax your feet.

[nina0113]

IMHO, the song was crap....It made no sense

You listened to it sober, didn't you.

[HelenChicago]

IMHO, the song was crap....It made no sense.

You've just described the Beatles' entire oevre:
nonsense rhymes set to nursery tunes.

[Maceman]

IMHO, the song was crap....It made no sense

You must have LOVED I am the Walrus:

I am he as you are he as you are me
and we are all together
See how they run like pigs from a gun
see how they fly
I'm crying

Sitting on a cornflake
Waiting for the van to come
Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man you've been a naughty boy
you let your face grow long

I am the eggman
they are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob

Mr. city policeman sitting
pretty little policemen in a row
See how they fly like Lucy in the sky
See how they run
I'm crying

I'm crying, I'm crying

Yellow matter custard
Dripping from a dead dog's eye
Crabalocker fishwife
Pornographic priestess
Boy, you've been a naughty girl
you let your knickers down

I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob

Sitting in an English garden
waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come you get a tan
from standing in the English rain

I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob

Expert, texpert choking smokers
don't you think the joker laughs at you
See how they smile like pigs in a sty
See how they snide
I'm crying

Semolina pilchard
climbing up the Eiffel tower
Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna
Man, you should have seen them kicking
Edgar Allan Poe

I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob

Goo goo g' joob
Goo goo g' goo
goo goo g' joob goo
juba juba juba
juba juba juba
juba juba juba juba
juba juba

[beagleone]

And yet, strangely, it sounds like classical music compared to most of the crap coming over the radio these days.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I tend to agree. After “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” “I Saw Her Standing There,” “Twist and Shout” and “Love Me Do,” it was all downhill.

[traumer]

They gave me gonorrhea.... Who's THEY? The government??

[Moonman62]

You've just described the Beatles' entire oevre: nonsense rhymes set to nursery tunes.

I'll have to remember that. I like some of their early work, but other than that they are way over rated. They happened to be in the right place, at the right time, with the right hair cuts.