"Lucy In The Sky" dead at 46

[Drawz]

The woman who, as a child became, through John Lennons son, the inspiration for the famous song died last Tuesday from Lupis at age 46.
Love that song, my mom played the album all the time when I was a kid.

RIP.

http://m.guardian.co.uk/?id=102202&story=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/sep/28/beatles-lucy-in-sky-dies

[angelicmadrigal]

hrmmm...I didn't think people died from Lupus as often as they used to.

[LouC]

The woman who, as a child became, through John Lennons son, the inspiration for the famous song died last Tuesday from Lupis at age 46.
Love that song, my mom played the album all the time when I was a kid.

RIP.

http://m.guardian.co.uk/?id=102202&story=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/sep/28/beatles-lucy-in-sky-dies

Several months ago I read about her deteriorating health.

That was the first time I had actually heard about the true origin of that song.

Sad.

[LouC]

hrmmm...I didn't think people died from Lupus as often as they used to.

I don't know?

A wonderful girl and casual friend I went to school with died of Lupus in her junior year, I still remember how grief stricken her father was at the funeral.

He never got over that, he carried a haunted look for years after, I guess it was partly because he had a passel of sons and but the one daughter.

Sorry I digress...

[angelicmadrigal]

I don't know?



I don't know either, I have several people with Lupus in my family and they're all in their 40's and realtively fine. So I don't know if it has to do with treatment and management or if it just is more deadly to some people than others.

[StoneScratcher]

Several months ago I read about her deteriorating health.

That was the first time I had actually heard about the true origin of that song.

Sad.

I didn't know about the story behind this song until I heard it this morning.

I didn't know that the L, S, and D from Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, was once thought to be "code" for LSD either until this morning.

Sad, true.

[Samm]

I didn't know about the story behind this song until I heard it this morning.

I didn't know that the L, S, and D from Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, was once thought to be "code" for LSD either until this morning.

Sad, true.

That is what the anti-cultural revolution establishment wanted everyone to believe. There were people who spent much of their time searching song lyrics for "drug messages" that were "intended to corrupt our youth." The Beatles played into that and had a lot of fun with it.

[Drawz]

That is what the anti-cultural revolution establishment wanted everyone to believe. There were people who spent much of their time searching song lyrics for "drug messages" that were "intended to corrupt our youth." The Beatles played into that and had a lot of fun with it.

:)
The lyrics do kinda lend themselves to that type of speculation don't they?

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.



Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain

Where rocking horse people eat marshmellow 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.



Picture yourself on a train in a station,

With plasticine porters with looking glass ties,

Suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle,

The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes.

[Samm]

:)
The lyrics do kinda lend themselves to that type of speculation don't they?

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.



Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain

Where rocking horse people eat marshmellow 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.



Picture yourself on a train in a station,

With plasticine porters with looking glass ties,

Suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle,

The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes.

As I said... the Beatles had fun with it. ;)

[hatman]

:)
The lyrics do kinda lend themselves to that type of speculation don't they?

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.



Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain

Where rocking horse people eat marshmellow 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.



Picture yourself on a train in a station,

With plasticine porters with looking glass ties,

Suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle,

The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes.

And as someone who did LSD in those days, that's not altogether different from what it looked/felt like at times. :)

ETA: And it is indeed sad that the real Lucy has passed. Rest in Peace, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

[Drawz]

And as someone who did LSD in those days, that's not altogether different from what it looked/felt like at times. :)

ETA: And it is indeed sad that the real Lucy has passed. Rest in Peace, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

As someone who dropped years later, all I can say is yours must have been better than ours. That, our you let those crazy Brits influence your trip. :)

[dwdj75]

That is what the anti-cultural revolution establishment wanted everyone to believe. There were people who spent much of their time searching song lyrics for "drug messages" that were "intended to corrupt our youth." The Beatles played into that and had a lot of fun with it.

Just as crazy as the Paul is dead group. But fun to follow the twisted path !

[hatman]

As someone who dropped years later, all I can say is yours must have been better than ours. That, our you let those crazy Brits influence your trip. :)

Possibly a little of both. :)

Can't speak for recent times, but back then there was a wide array of 'quality'. When it was good, it was great. When it was bad, not so much fun.

[Samm]

Just as crazy as the Paul is dead group. But fun to follow the twisted path !

Yeah... the symbolic Abby Road cover picture... the "Paul is dead, Paul is dead, Paul is dead..." recorded backwards in one of their songs. You can't say they did not have a good sense of humor. ;)