what inspired the creation of Lucy in the Sky with diamonds?
2006-12-27 04:27:45 · 8 answers · asked by some_guy 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
mhp_wizo_93_418, your anwser was the most detailed and informative! And in addition it's correct. Julian Lennon's painting WAS in fact the inspiration for the song. Good job. i would select you as best anwser, but i have to wait for 4 hours like yahoo says.
2006-12-27 07:40:14 · update #1
the Beatles' explanation that the title had been dreamed up by four-year-old Julian Lennon for one of his own paintings.
Examples of John's consistency are provided in some of the various interviews he did in subsequent years. For example, his interview with Rolling Stone magazine in 1970, in which he stated:
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" . . . I swear to God, or swear to Mao, or to anybody you like, I had no idea spelled LSD . . .
Immediately after that response, John was specifically asked about the song's title by the interviewer:
Q: When did you realize that LSD were the initials of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"?
A: Only after I read it or somebody told me. I didn't even see it on the label. I didn't look at the initials . . .
John told much the same story during his 1972 appearances on "The Mike Douglas Show," and in September, 1980, only a few months before his death, John was still offering the same story of the title's origin in an interview with Playboy magazine:
My son Julian came in one day with a picture he painted about a school friend of his named Lucy. He had sketched in some stars in the sky and called it "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." Simple.
2006-12-27 04:35:43 · answer #1 · answered by mhp_wizo_93_418 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
John Lennon's son, Julian, made a drawing of a classmate. When John asked Julian about it, Julian told him it's Lucy, in the sky with diamonds. The links includes the drawing.
2006-12-27 12:37:05 · answer #2 · answered by Don E 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A drawing by Julian Lennon, John Lennons son.
2006-12-27 12:34:38 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
John Lennon wrote the song about a drawing his son (Julian) did in day care about a girl named Lucy.
I don't remember much of the details.
2006-12-27 12:36:07 · answer #4 · answered by starting over 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jullian Lennon drew a picture and when asked what it was, he said it was lucy in the sky with diamonds.
2006-12-27 12:36:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Man Himself - the composer, Elton John - has said that he thought it up while tripping on LSD : L=Lucy S=Sky D-Diamonds.
2006-12-27 12:47:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It was nothing to do with drugs.
2006-12-27 12:31:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Old tale.
2006-12-27 12:33:13 · answer #8 · answered by elgil 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋