![]() Many, many analyses of the song have been written over the years, some of them based on interviews Lennon (and McCartney) gave. According to interviews he gave over the years, Lennon had been reading works of Lewis Carroll and incorporated images from Through the Looking Glass into the song which had been suggested to him through Julian’s artwork. The drawing was of his friend Lucy O’Donnell who was floating in the sky surrounded by sparkling jewels and diamonds. Interestingly, Lennon denied any intentional acknowledgement or inclusion of LSD or influence of the drug on the creation of the colorful imagery or dreamy instrumentals of the song.Īccording to Lennon, the song’s origins lie in a drawing his 3-year old son Julian had created and brought home from school. Almost immediately after the album’s release, people began intimating that “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was about LSD - lysergic acid diethylamide - the hallucinogenic chemical synthesized by Albert Hoffman in 1938 while he was working for Sandoz Pharmaceuticals in Basel, Switzerland. Written primarily by John Lennon (with co-writing credits shared by Paul McCartney), the song appeared on 1967’s Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club album which is an album filled with all sorts of direct and indirect references to marijuana and other psychedelics. “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, along with “White Rabbit”, serves as a pillar of reference for the exploration of psychedelic drugs found in the music of the late ‘60 and early ‘70s.
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