‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’ Dies – Beatles Fans Mourn

The inspiration behind the classic Beatles hit, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, has died at the tender age of just 46 after losing a long fight with Lupus. And there was me thinking that the song was all about LSD and the effects of a trip on the hallucinogenic drug. I guess I was wrong.

The story goes that Lucy Vodden was a childhood friend of John Lennon’s son Julian. In 1966, he returned home from nursery school with a picture of Lucy with diamond-shaped eyes and when asked explained it was Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.

A year later and the genius that was John Lennon had used that incident as inspiration to write and record it as a song. In 1967, it appeared on the seminal Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Unfortunately, according to BBC News, Lucy Vodden has now passed away from Lupus. The St Thomas Lupus Trust claimed that both Julian and Cynhtia Lennon (John’s first wife) were “shocked and saddened” by her passing away.

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