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“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney that was recorded by The Beatles for their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Many people thought this was about drugs, since the letters “LSD” are prominent in the title, and John Lennon, who wrote it, was known to drop acid. In 1971 Lennon told Rolling Stone that he swore that he had no idea that the song’s initials spelled L.S.D. He added: “I didn’t even see it on the label. I didn’t look at the initials. I don’t look— I mean I never play things backwards. I listened to it as I made it. It’s like there will be things on this one, if you fiddle about with it. I don’t know what they are. Every time after that though I would look at the titles to see what it said, and usually they never said anything.”

Paul McCartney recounted trading lyric ideas with Lennon in an interview, saying, “We never noticed the LSD initial until it was pointed out later, by which point people didn’t believe us.” This is confirmed by a 1971 interview of Lennon, where he described searching for acronyms in other song titles only to find “they didn’t spell out anything.” George Martin also denied the song was about LSD in the book The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions by Mark Lewisohn.However, Lewisohn goes on to say “there can be little doubt that this was the very substance that provoked such colourful word imagery to flow out of Lennon’s head and onto paper.
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  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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  • Love
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  • 1967-1970 (disc 1)
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  • Anthology 2 (disc 2)
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  • SgtPepper1992

    This song was inspired by Paul's kid's drawing that depicted a girl named Lucy who was off of the ground with stars around her that looked like diamonds. So they called the drawing "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and dedicated a song to it. [2]

    5 hours ago

  • LudasLudio

    This song was inspired by Paul's kid's drawing that depicted a girl named Lucy who was off of the ground with stars around her that looked like diamonds. So they called the drawing "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and dedicated a song to it.

    Thursday morning

  • maxdaisy1

    So it funny but I also named my dog Lucy because of this song. Her registered name is Lucy in the Sky

    22 days ago

  • kemp678

    :o) :o) everyone smiles :o) :o)

    24 days ago

  • zoso8899

    long live LSD [10]

    last month

  • BlueOclock

    Well, you know what I do if I come to a song I don't like? I click on the skip track button and off I go to the next one that hopefully I like! Doesn't make much sense to hover about listening to music you don't like, while typing out something negative about it. Myself, I love this song!!! Yours, Paul McCartney

    last month

  • alexia_N

    ♥

    last month

  • Brugelida

    long live lsd [9]

    last month

  • oldiesfanjohn

    long live lsd [8]

    last month

  • maxlharris

    My uncle got suspended from prep school for using this song in a presentation... the school thought it might be promoting drug use... Crazy people... it definitely promotes drug use.

    March 2012

  • Deslovesmusic

    Is this live?Its so beautiful

    March 2012

  • irfanh23

    666k listeners

    March 2012

  • TheDarkSide73

    I Hate Lamb Of God the more and more i listen..It's just my opinion haters, don't freak out..

    March 2012

  • BorisTheBlade19

    I hate the beatles more and more with every listen...it's just my opinion haters, don't freak out.

    March 2012

  • ravenclaw94

    An old favorite

    March 2012

  • crawlpalmetto

    It's not about LSD it's about aspirin.

    February 2012

  • Erokthebrave

    long live lsd [7]

    February 2012

  • lordhelmit

    @Lajon: funny, we just named our puppy Lucy cause of it. lol.

    February 2012

  • ViniciusStilt

    long live lsd [6]

    February 2012

  • laurenisacat

    long live lsd [5]

    February 2012
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