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
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
That grow so incredibly high
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore
Waiting to take you away
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
And you’re gone
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah
Picture yourself on a train in a station
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Songwriters: John Lennon / Paul Mccartney Released
26 May 1967 Hence Completed 55 Years Exactly on Today , the May 26 , 2022 : :
Recorded
1–2 March 1967
Studio
EMI, London , by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. : : GENRE : Acid Rock , Psychedelic rock , Psychedelia : : includes a Lowrey organ played by McCartney: part heavily treated with studio effects, and a drone provided by an Indian tambura played by George Harrison who also played acoustic/ lead Guitar . Ringo Starr played Drum and George Martin , Piano.McCartney’s bass and Harrison’s lead guitar occupied track four. The lead guitar part varies between sections of the song: over the bridges, Harrison duplicates Lennon’s melody and intonation in the style of a sarangi accompanying an Indian khyal vocalist; over the choruses, he plays an ascending riff on his Fender Stratocaster (mirrored by McCartney’s bass), with heavy Leslie treatment given to the part. The song has been recognised as a key work in the psychedelic genre. Among its many cover versions, a 1974 recording by Elton John – with a guest appearance by Lennon – was a number 1 hit in the US and Canada. Elton John once stated that “‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ is a song that I never do in a set at a concert simply because it reminds me too much of John Lennon. John Lennon said that his inspiration for the song came when his three-year-old son Julian showed him a nursery school drawing that he called “Lucy – in the Sky with Diamonds”, depicting his classmate Lucy O’Donnell. Julian later recalled: “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.” Ringo Starr witnessed the moment and said that Julian first uttered the song’s title on returning home from nursery school. Lennon later said, “I thought that’s beautiful. I immediately wrote a song about it.”
According to Lennon, the lyrics were largely derived from the literary style of Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice in Wonderland. Lennon had read and admired Carroll’s works, and the title of Julian’s drawing reminded him of the “Which Dreamed It?” chapter of Through the Looking Glass, in which Alice floats in a “boat beneath a sunny sky”. Lennon recalled in a 1980 interview:
It was Alice in the boat. She is buying an egg and it turns into Humpty-Dumpty. The woman serving in the shop turns into a sheep and the next minute they are rowing in a rowing boat somewhere and I was visualizing that.
Paul McCartney remembered of the song’s composition, “We did the whole thing like an Alice in Wonderland idea, being in a boat on the river … Every so often it broke off and you saw Lucy in the sky with diamonds all over the sky. This Lucy was God, the Big Figure, the White Rabbit.” He later recalled helping Lennon finish the song at Lennon’s Kenwood home, specifically claiming he contributed the “newspaper taxis” and “cellophane flowers” lyrics. Lennon’s 1968 interview with Rolling Stone magazine confirmed McCartney’s contribution.
Lucy O’Donnell Vodden, who was married to Ross Vodden and lived in Surbiton, Surrey, died 28 September 2009 of complications of lupus. Julian had been informed of her illness and renewed their friendship before her death. Julian used to send her gifts relating Her Gardening hobby to make her smile . After her death , he released a Duet Song with James Scott Cook : “Lucy ” in mid 80s :Its entire proceeds to go for Lupus Charities : : : : : : : : : : : : Rumours of the connection between the title of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” and the initialism “LSD” began circulating shortly after the release of the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band LP in June 1967. McCartney gave two interviews in June admitting to having taken the drug. Lennon later said he was surprised at the idea the title was a hidden reference to LSD, countering that the song “wasn’t about that at all”, and it “was purely unconscious that it came out to be LSD. Until someone pointed it out, I never even thought of it. I mean, who would ever bother to look at initials of a title? … It’s not an acid song.”
McCartney confirmed Lennon’s claim on several occasions.But , In a 2004 interview with Uncut magazine, McCartney confirmed it was “pretty obvious” drugs did influence some of the group’s compositions at that time, including “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, though he tempered this statement by adding, “[I]t’s easy to overestimate the influence of drugs on the Beatles’ music.” Richard Goldstein wrote in a review for The New York Times that the song was “an engaging curio, nothing more.” Ernie Santosuosso wrote in a review for The Boston Globe that the song’s imagery was “wild”.”Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was a “miniature pop version” of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings in terms of conveying the sense of wonder , the 1978 book by author Nicholas Schaffner’ evoked. ( Pp 81 – 82 ) : : : :: : : : : : Rolling Stone magazine described “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” as “Lennon’s lavish daydream”.[incomplete short citation] In their respective reviews for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine identifies it as “one of the touchstones of British psychedelia” while Richie Unterberger views it as “one of the best songs on the Beatles’ famous Sgt. Pepper album, and one of the classic songs of psychedelia as a whole”. Unterberger adds: “There are few other songs that so successfully evoke a dream world, in both the sonic textures and words. ms”. Writing for Paste in 2015, Hilary Saunders called the song “a perfectly indulgent introduction to psych-rock”. In 2013, Dave Swanson of Ultimate Classic Rock ranked “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” fourth on his list of the “Top 10 Beatles Psychedelic Songs” saying that, despite Lennon’s insistence about the inspiration for its title, the track is “Three-and-a-half minutes of pure lysergic bliss, full of picturesque and surreal lyrics set to one of the Beatles’ most trippy songs”.Echo Effects in the integration of the song is excellent.: : Do you remember any Lucy like Girl , a childhood friend of your past , 55 years ago ! ? : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds : By Beatles : : Song information Appreciation and poem Analysis Presented by V Jayaraj Pune India : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
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