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1967 song by the Beatles

"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
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Song by the Beatles
from the album Sgt. Pepper's Alone Hearts Club Band
Released 26 May 1967[1]
Recorded one–2 March 1967
Studio EMI, London
Genre Psychedelia, acrid rock, psychedelic rock
Length 3:28
Label Parlophone
Songwriter(s) Lennon–McCartney
Producer(s) George Martin
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"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is a vocal by the English language stone band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was written primarily by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership.[two] Lennon's son Julian inspired the song with a nursery school drawing that he called "Lucy – in the sky with diamonds". Soon earlier the album's release, speculation arose that the first alphabetic character of each of the nouns in the title intentionally spelled "LSD", the initialism unremarkably used for the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acrid diethylamide.[3] Lennon repeatedly denied that he had intended it as a drug vocal,[three] [4] and attributed the song's fantastical imagery to his reading of Lewis Carroll'due south Alice in Wonderland books.[3]

The Beatles recorded "Lucy in the Heaven with Diamonds" in March 1967. Adding to the song's ethereal qualities, the musical arrangement includes a Lowrey organ part heavily treated with studio effects, and a drone provided by an Indian tambura. The vocal has been recognised as a cardinal piece of work in the psychedelic genre. Amid its many cover versions, a 1974 recording past Elton John – with a guest advent past Lennon – was a number 1 hit in the Usa and Canada.

Background and inspiration [edit]

John Lennon said that his inspiration for the song came when his three-year-old son Julian showed him a nursery schoolhouse cartoon that he chosen "Lucy – in the Sky with Diamonds",[4] depicting his classmate Lucy O'Donnell.[v] Julian afterwards recalled: "I don't know why I called it that or why information technology stood out from all my other drawings, but I obviously had an affection for Lucy at that historic period. I used to show Dad everything I'd built or painted at school, and this ane sparked off the idea."[5] [6] [7] Ringo Starr witnessed the moment and said that Julian first uttered the song's championship on returning home from nursery school.[4] [viii] [nine] Lennon later said, "I thought that's beautiful. I immediately wrote a vocal about it."[4]

According to Lennon, the lyrics were largely derived from the literary manner of Lewis Carroll's novel Alice in Wonderland.[three] [10] Lennon had read and admired Carroll'southward works, and the championship 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 heaven".[11] Lennon recalled in a 1980 interview:

It was Alice in the boat. She is buying an egg and it turns into Humpty-Dumpty. The woman serving in the shop turns into a sheep and the next infinitesimal they are rowing in a rowing boat somewhere and I was visualizing that.[3]

Paul McCartney remembered of the song's composition, "We did the whole affair like an Alice in Wonderland idea, existence in a gunkhole on the river ... Every so often it broke off and y'all saw Lucy in the sky with diamonds all over the heaven. This Lucy was God, the Large Figure, the White Rabbit."[10] He afterwards recalled helping Lennon finish the vocal at Lennon's Kenwood dwelling house, specifically claiming he contributed the "newspaper taxis" and "cellophane flowers" lyrics.[8] [12] Lennon'south 1968 interview with Rolling Stone magazine confirmed McCartney's contribution.[13]

Lucy O'Donnell Vodden, who was married to Ross Vodden and lived in Surbiton, Surrey, died 28 September 2009 of complications of lupus. Julian had been informed of her illness and renewed their friendship earlier her death.[5]

Composition [edit]

Most of "Lucy in the Heaven with Diamonds" is in uncomplicated triple metre ( 3
iv time), but the chorus is in 4
iv time. In the original mono mix of the song, the song modulates betwixt musical keys, using the key of G ♯ major for verses, A major for the pre-chorus, and F ♯ major for the chorus. The original stereo mix of the song speeds the song upward so the pitch is raised by one half-stride.[14] It is sung by Lennon over an increasingly complicated underlying system which features a tambura, played by George Harrison; atomic number 82 electrical guitar put through a Leslie speaker, played by Harrison; and a counter melody on Lowrey organ played past McCartney and taped with a special organ stop sounding "non unlike a celeste".[15] [ incomplete curt citation ] [xvi] Session tapes from the initial ane March 1967 recording of this song reveal Lennon originally sang the line "Cellophane flowers of yellow and greenish" every bit a broken phrase, just McCartney suggested that he sing it more fluidly to improve the vocal.[17] [ incomplete brusque citation ]

Recording [edit]

The recording of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" began with rehearsals in Studio two at Abbey Route on 28 February 1967.[eighteen] The instrumental backing was finished the post-obit evening. On the showtime accept, rails one of the 4-track tape contained audio-visual guitar and pianoforte, track two McCartney'due south Lowrey organ, track three Ringo Starr'southward drums, and track four a guide vocal by Lennon during the verses. Take viii replaced the guide vocal with Harrison's tambura. The four tracks of this take were then mixed together and recorded on the first rails of a 2nd four-rail record.[xviii] On 2 March, Lennon's double-tracked vocals, accompanied by McCartney on the choruses, were recorded to tracks 2 and 3. McCartney'south bass and Harrison's lead guitar occupied track 4.[xix] The atomic number 82 guitar part varies between sections of the vocal: over the bridges, Harrison duplicates Lennon's melody and intonation in the style of a sarangi accompanying an Indian khyal vocalist;[xx] over the choruses, he plays an ascending riff on his Fender Stratocaster (mirrored past McCartney'due south bass), with heavy Leslie treatment given to the office.[21] Eleven mono mixes of the song were fabricated at the 2 March session, just they were rejected in favour of the terminal mono mix created on 3 March. A stereo mix was made on 7 Apr.[xix]

Outtakes from the recording sessions have been officially released. The Beatles' Anthology 2, released in 1996, contained a composite remix, with ingredients from takes six, seven and eight, while the first accept of the song was featured on the two-disc and half dozen-disc versions of the 50th-anniversary edition of Sgt. Pepper in 2017.[22] The six-disc collection also included accept five and the concluding of the eleven mono mixes made on 2 March 1967.[23]

LSD rumours [edit]

Rumours of the connectedness between the title of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and the initialism "LSD" began circulating shortly later the release of the Sgt. Pepper's Solitary Hearts Club Ring LP in June 1967.[24] [25] McCartney gave two interviews in June albeit to having taken the drug.[26] [27] Lennon later said he was surprised at the idea the title was a subconscious reference to LSD,[3] countering that the song "wasn't about that at all",[iv] and it "was purely unconscious that it came out to be LSD. Until someone pointed it out, I never even thought of it. I mean, who would ever bother to look at initials of a championship? ... It's not an acid vocal."[3]

McCartney confirmed Lennon's claim on several occasions.[viii] [12] In 1968 he said:

When y'all write a song and you mean it one fashion, and someone comes upward and says something virtually it that you didn't remember of – you tin't deny it. Like "Lucy in the Heaven with Diamonds," people came up and said, cunningly, "Right, I get it. L-S-D," and it was when [news]papers were talking nigh LSD, only nosotros never thought about it.[10]

In a 2004 interview with Uncut magazine, McCartney confirmed it was "pretty obvious" drugs did influence some of the group's compositions at that fourth dimension, including "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", though he tempered this statement by adding, "[I]t's easy to overestimate the influence of drugs on the Beatles' music."[28]

Claims have circulated that the BBC banned the song at the time of its release in 1967 for its alleged references to drugs.[29] Among other sources, the claim has been recited in The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature.[xxx] This claim has been disputed past authors Alan Clayson and Spencer Leigh, who wrote in The Walrus Was Ringo: 101 Beatles Myths Debunked that the BBC never officially banned the song, despite the company'south doubts almost the bailiwick matter.[31] The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship consulted with the BBC's surviving internal correspondence and memos from 1967, and mentioned no ban on any Sgt. Pepper song aside from the one on "A Day in the Life", stating the BBC banned "this one runway [A Day in the Life] from the album Sgt. Pepper'due south Alone Hearts Club Band".[32] A 2014 documentary moving picture produced and broadcast by BBC boob tube entitled Britain'south Well-nigh Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned also claimed that the BBC never banned the song:

Strangely, on an entire album influenced past the ring's heed-expanding experimentation, it was just the final runway, "A Mean solar day in the Life", that came under the BBC'southward moral microscope ... Afterwards lengthy correspondence with Joseph Lockwood at EMI, the BBC banned the song for what they believed to be a drug reference in just one line ... In fact, some other vocal on Sgt. Pepper [i.east, "Lucy in the Heaven with Diamonds"] did sideslip under the BBC's radar.[33]

The vocal was played at least once on BBC Radio at the fourth dimension of the Sgt. Pepper anthology's release, on the 20 May 1967 broadcast of Where It'due south At hosted by Kenny Everett and Chris Denning.[34] [35] The song was also played as part of the 1972 BBC Radio documentary The Beatles Story, hosted by Brian Matthew.[36]

Reception [edit]

Upon the release of the Sgt. Pepper album, Disc and Music Echo magazine wrote that "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was "easily remembered", that the song spotlighted John Lennon's "specially insinuating" vocals, and that it "jumps along on a crashing clavicord-type sound".[37] Richard Goldstein wrote in a review for The New York Times that the vocal was "an engaging curio, nothing more."[38] Ernie Santosuosso wrote in a review for The Boston Globe that the vocal's imagery was "wild".[39]

Discussing the affect of the Sgt. Pepper album, author Nicholas Schaffner cited the song as an instance of how the Beatles successfully captured the way "young people were trying to transcend, transform, or escape from straight society" in 1967. He said that just as Harrison's "Within You Without You" represented the exoticism of Herman Hesse's Siddartha, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was a "miniature popular version" of Tolkien'south The Lord of the Rings in terms of conveying the sense of wonder the book evoked.[xl] According to musicologist Walter Everett, the song'south lyrics inspired "derivative texts" throughout the late 1960s, namely John Fred & His Playboy Band's "Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)", the Lemon Pipers' "Jelly Jungle (of Orange Marmalade)", Pink Floyd's "Let At that place Be More Light" and the Scaffold's "Jelly Covered Cloud".[41]

Rolling Stone mag described "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" as "Lennon's lavish daydream".[42] [ incomplete short citation ] In their respective reviews for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine identifies it equally "ane of the touchstones of British psychedelia"[43] while Richie Unterberger views it every bit "one of the all-time songs on the Beatles' famous Sgt. Pepper album, and one of the classic songs of psychedelia as a whole". Unterberger adds: "There are few other songs that so successfully evoke a dream world, in both the sonic textures and words."[44] In his book on the history of ambient music, Mark Prendergast highlights the track equally one of the album'south "three outstanding cuts", along with "A Twenty-four hour period in the Life" and "Within You Without You". He describes it as "incredible" and "a gossamer-like evocation of childlike psychedelia".[45] For BBC Culture, Greg Kot called the song an "acid-rock fantasia" and a high point of the album.[46]

In a review for the BBC Music website, Chris Jones described the track equally "plant nursery rhyme surrealism" that contributed to Sgt. Pepper 's "revolutionary ... sonic carpet that enveloped the ears and sent the listener spinning into other realms".[47] Writing for Paste in 2015, Hilary Saunders called the song "a perfectly indulgent introduction to psych-rock".[48] In 2013, Dave Swanson of Ultimate Archetype Rock ranked "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" fourth on his list of the "Top x Beatles Psychedelic Songs" maxim that, despite Lennon'due south insistence almost the inspiration for its championship, the track is "3-and-a-half minutes of pure lysergic elation, full of picturesque and surreal lyrics gear up to one of the Beatles' about trippy songs".[49]

Harrison later identified "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" equally one of the few songs he liked from Sgt. Pepper [fifty] and expressed satisfaction with his Indian music-inspired contributions.[51] For his part, Lennon expressed disappointment with the Beatles' arrangement of the recording, complaining that inadequate fourth dimension was taken to fully develop his initial idea for the song. He also said he had not sung it very well. "I was then nervous I couldn't sing", he told journalist Ray Connolly, "but I like the lyrics."[52] Co-ordinate to writer Ian MacDonald, in a scenario similar to Lennon's disappointment with "Strawberry Fields Forever", Lennon most likely rued the loss of "sentimental gentleness" he had envisaged for the slice, and, overly passive to his songwriting partner's suggestions, allowed the organization to become dominated by McCartney's "glittering countermelody".[53] MacDonald views the span portions every bit the "most effective" sections, through their subtle use of harmonised drone and "featherweight bass", and bemoans the reversion to "clodhopping ... three-chord 4/4 stone" over the choruses. He concludes by proverb that the track "succeed[due south] more equally a glamorous product (voice and guitar through the Leslie cabinet; repeat and varispeed on everything) than as an integrated song".[54]

Personnel [edit]

According to authors Kevin Ryan and Brian Kehew,[16] and John Winn:[55]

The Beatles

  • John Lennon – double-tracked lead vocals, maracas, guitar[56]
  • Paul McCartney – harmony vocals, Lowrey organ, bass
  • George Harrison – acoustic guitar, tambura, lead guitar
  • Ringo Starr – drums

Additional musician

  • George Martin – piano[57]

Certifications [edit]

Legacy [edit]

Lennon mentioned "Lucy in the Sky" in the Beatles' song "I Am the Walrus".

A 3.2-million-twelvemonth-erstwhile, 40% complete fossil skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis specimen, discovered in 1974 past Donald Johanson, Yves Coppens, Maurice Taieb and Tom Greyness, was named "Lucy" because the Beatles song was being played loudly and repeatedly on a tape recorder in the army camp. The phrase "Lucy in the sky" became "Lucy in disguise" to the anthropologists, because they initially did not understand the bear on of their discovery.[59] The NASA mission Lucy has, in turn, been named after the fossil. It is due to arrive at its first target, asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, in April 2025.[60]

In 2009 Julian with James Scott Cook and Todd Meagher released "Lucy", a song that is a quasi-follow-up to the Beatles' vocal. The comprehend of the EP showed four-year-old Julian'south original drawing, that at present is owned past David Gilmour from Pink Floyd.[61]

Lennon'southward original handwritten lyrics sold at auction in 2011 for $230,000.[62]

Elton John version [edit]

"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
Elton-john-lucy-in-the-sky-with-diamonds-1974-11-s.jpg

Us picture sleeve
Single by Elton John
B-side "One Solar day (At a Time)"
Released 15 November 1974 (UK), 18 November 1974 (US)
Recorded Summer 1974
Genre Psychedelic pop
Length 5:58
Characterization
  • MCA (United states of america)
  • DJM (Uk)
Songwriter(s) Lennon–McCartney
Producer(south) Gus Dudgeon
Elton John singles chronology
"The Bowwow Is Dorsum"
(1974) 		"Lucy in the Heaven with Diamonds"
(1974) 		"Philadelphia Freedom"
(1975)

In 1974, English musician Elton John released a cover version equally a single. Recorded at the Caribou Ranch, it featured backing vocals and guitar by John Lennon nether the pseudonym Dr. Winston O'Boogie (Winston existence Lennon's middle proper noun). The single topped the United states Billboard pop charts for ii weeks in January 1975 equally well as the Canadian RPM national singles nautical chart for iv weeks spanning January and February. The B-side of the single was too a John Lennon limerick, "Ane 24-hour interval (At a Time)", from Lennon'southward 1973 album Mind Games.

Evolution and release [edit]

In the Usa it was certified Gold on 29 January 1975 by the RIAA.[63] During their collaboration, Elton John appeared on John Lennon's song "Whatever Gets Y'all Thru the Night". Lennon promised to appear alive with Elton at Madison Square Garden if "Whatever Gets You Thru the Dark" became a number-one single.[64] It did, and on Thanksgiving Night, 28 Nov 1974, Lennon kept his promise. They performed "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Whatsoever Gets You thru the Night", and "I Saw Her Standing There" (which was written primarily by Paul McCartney). It is one of ii songs written by Lennon–McCartney to attain number i in the US past an artist other than the Beatles.[65] The other is "A World Without Love" recorded by Peter and Gordon in 1964.[65]

In introducing "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", Elton John said he believed it to be "one of the best songs e'er written." The Lennon-sung "I Saw Her Standing There" (credited to the Elton John Band featuring John Lennon) was originally released in 1975 on the B-side of Elton John's "Philadelphia Liberty" unmarried. In 1981, all three live songs were issued on 28 Nov 1974, an Elton John EP.[66] In 1990, the 3 songs were made bachelor on the Lennon box set. In 1996, they were also included on the remastered edition of Elton John's Hither and In that location album. Elton John one time stated that "'Lucy in the Heaven with Diamonds' is a song that I never do in a gear up at a concert but because it reminds me likewise much of John Lennon. This is the same with 'Empty Garden'." It was a role of his standard repertoire from 1974 until 1976, and sporadically until 1998. It also appeared in the 1976 musical documentary All This and Earth War Ii.

Personnel [edit]

  • Elton John – atomic number 82 and backing vocals, pianoforte, mellotron, harpsichord
  • John Lennon (as Dr. Winston O'Boogie) – bankroll vocals, guitars
  • Davey Johnstone – backing vocals, electric guitar, sitar
  • Dee Murray – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Nigel Olsson – drums, backing vocals
  • Ray Cooper – tambourine, tubular bells, gong, maracas, mark tree, congas

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

The Flaming Lips version [edit]

"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
Lucyintheskywithdiamonds.jpg
Single by The Flaming Lips featuring Miley Cyrus and Moby
from the album With a Piffling Help from My Fwends
Released eighteen May 2014
Length 5:47
Label Warner Bros.
Songwriter(south) Lennon-McCartney
The Flaming Lips singles chronology
"Beloved the World Yous Observe"
(2007) 		"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
(2014) 		"We a Famly"
(2017)
Miley Cyrus singles chronology
"Adore You"
(2013) 		"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
(2014) 		"Come Get It Bae"
(2014)
Moby singles chronology
"A Instance for Shame"
(2013) 		"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
(2014) 		"Rio"
(2014)

A comprehend version by the Flaming Lips was included on their album With a Little Help from My Fwends, released on Warner Bros.[77] The song, featuring vocals from Miley Cyrus and Moby, was released as official unmarried on 18 May 2014.[78] All proceeds from record sales go to the Bella Foundation, an organisation in Oklahoma Metropolis that helps provide veterinarian care to needy pet owners.[79]

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External links [edit]

  • Alan W. Pollack's Notes on "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
  • The Beatles – Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds on YouTube
  • Elton John – Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds on YouTube

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