This Lucy was God, the Big Figure, the White Rabbit." He later recalled helping Lennon finish the song at Lennon's Kenwood home, specifically claiming he contributed the "newspaper taxis" and "cellophane flowers" lyrics. Every so often it broke off and you saw Lucy in the sky with diamonds all over the sky. Paul McCartney remembered of the song's composition, "We did the whole thing like an Alice in Wonderland idea, being in a boat on the river . The woman serving in the shop turns into a sheep and the next minute they are rowing in a rowing boat somewhere and I was visualizing that. She is buying an egg and it turns into Humpty-Dumpty. Lennon had read and admired Carroll's works, and the title of Julian's drawing reminded him of the "Which Dreamed It?" chapter of Through the Looking Glass, in which Alice floats in a "boat beneath a sunny sky". I immediately wrote a song about it." Īccording to Lennon, the lyrics were largely derived from the literary style of Lewis Carroll's novel Alice in Wonderland. Lennon later said, "I thought that's beautiful. I used to show Dad everything I'd built or painted at school, and this one sparked off the idea." Ringo Starr witnessed the moment and said that Julian first uttered the song's title on returning home from nursery school.
Julian later recalled: "I don't know why I called it that or why it stood out from all my other drawings, but I obviously had an affection for Lucy at that age. John Lennon said that his inspiration for the song came when his three-year-old son Julian showed him a nursery school drawing that he called "Lucy – in the Sky with Diamonds", depicting his classmate Lucy O'Donnell. Among its many cover versions, a 1974 recording by Elton John, with a guest appearance by Lennon, was a number 1 hit in the US and Canada. The song has been recognised as a key work in the psychedelic genre. Adding to the song's ethereal qualities, the musical arrangement includes a Lowrey organ part heavily treated with studio effects, and drone provided by an Indian tambura. The Beatles recorded "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" in March 1967. He attributed the song's fantastical imagery to his reading of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books. Lennon repeatedly denied that he had intended it as a drug song. Shortly before the album's release, speculation arose that the first letter of each of the title nouns intentionally spelled "LSD", the initialism commonly used for the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide. Lennon's son Julian inspired the song with a nursery school drawing that he called "Lucy – in the sky with diamonds". It was written primarily by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership. " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt.
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