BEATLES LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS. Poster-quality Printable Download.

BEATLES LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS. Poster-quality Printable Download.

The Beatles song “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” from their 1967 album ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ takes its origins and inspiration from John Lennon’s son Julian.

Lennon said “my son came home with a drawing and showed me this strange-looking woman flying around. I said, ‘What is it?’ and he said, ‘It’s Lucy in the sky with diamonds,’ and I thought, ‘That’s beautiful.’ I immediately wrote a song about it”.

Paul McCartney also contributed to the words of the song stating: “I showed up at John’s house and he had a drawing Julian had done at school with the title ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’ above it. Then we went up to his music room and wrote the song, swapping psychedelic suggestions as we went. I remember coming up with ‘cellophane flowers’ and ‘newspaper taxis’ and John answered with things like ‘kaleidoscope eyes’ and ‘looking glass ties’. We never noticed the LSD initial until it was pointed out later – by which point people didn’t believe us”.

And what of the real “Lucy” in the title? Her name was Lucy O’Donnell, and at 4 years old attended Heath House nursery school in Weybridge with Julian Lennon. She didn’t realise she had been immortalised in a Beatles song until she was 13, in 1976.

Sadly the real Lucy, the “…girl with kaleidoscope eyes” passed away at the age of 46 after suffering from the long-term illness lupus.

Will look fantastic if framed, especially if printed at UK A3 / USA Tabloid or Ledger (but will resize to any).