Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Dies From Lupus
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Dies from LUPUS. She was the childhood friend of John Lennon’s son, Julian Lennon, who inspired the Beatles’ psychedelic masterpiece “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” has died at age 46, from the chronic disease, Lupus.
Back when the Beatles where making an album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band…Julian Lennon showed his father a drawing he had done of Lucy Vodden. The rest is music history…
Many people thought that “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds,” was an anonym for LSD…but… it could not be further from the truth.
Lucy Vodden was a classmate of Julian Lennon, Julian came home from school one day carrying a drawing of his 4 year old classmate. “That’s Lucy in the sky with diamonds,” he told his father, John Lennon.
Lennon seized on the image and embellished it in a song along with “newspaper taxis” and a “girl with kaleidoscope eyes.”
The BBC later banned the track, which appeared on the 1967 album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” for its supposed drug reference with the words of the song spelling out LSD.
So much for the Brits and their insight to the Beatles.
John Lennon always claimed though that the title was suggested by Julian, not from any wish to spell out LSD, the chemical name for the drug, acid, in street language.
Julian Lennon lost touch with Vodden when he left Heath House nursery school, near his parents’ home in Surrey following their divorce in 1968. But they were reunited in recent years when he heard she was suffering from the immune system disease and he lent his support to her.
Vodden’s death was announced on Monday, September, 21st, 2009, by St. Thomas Lupus Trust in London, where she had been treated for more than five years.
“Julian and his mother Cynthia are saddened by the loss of Lucy and their thoughts are with her husband and family today and always,” the trust stated on its Web site.
Angie Davidson, Campaign Director of the St. Thomas’ Lupus Trust stated “everyone at the Louise Coote Lupus Unit was dreadfully shocked by the death of Lucy, she was a great supporter of ours and a real fighter, it’s so sad that she has finally lost the battle she fought so bravely for so long.”
Lucy Vodden, was a Lupus survivor and a housewife from Surbiton, southwest of London. She always cherished her link to the Beatles, but did not especially like the song she inspired.
Personally, I love that song. But, there isn’t a Beatles song that I do not like.
As most of my readers know, I have Lupus and though they tell you that it is a disease that you don not die from that is not the truth. Being a survivor from Lupus, I know what an every day struggle Lupus can be for some and my thoughts and prayers go out to Lucy Vodden, her family and friends.
Most Baby Boomers will remember the song, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, from the Beatles album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
This particular “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds,” is from the video Yellow Submarine.
The Beatles Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds…lyrics
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.
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,
Picture yourself on a train in a station,
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties,
Suddenly someone is there at the turn style,
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes.
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