The girl that inspired "Lucy in the Sky" song dies
Posted by womenagerie on September 29, 2009
The song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by the Beatles was inspired by a real girl, a 4-year old girl who was a classmate of John Lennon‘s son Julian Lennon. The girl, Lucy Vodden dies from chronic disease Lupus at the age of 46.
Julian went home from school one day carrying a drawing of his 4-year old classmate, showed it to his father John and said “That’s Lucy in the sky with diamonds.” And from that inspiration, Lennon was able to write a song for the “girl with kaleidoscope eyes.”
The song, which was included in the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band, was later banned because it was said to spell out LSD and refers to the drug. Lennon however insists that the title was suggested by his son and wasn’t meant to refer to the drug.
After losing touch with his childhood friend when he left Heath House nursery school, Julian was only reunited with Vodden in recent years when he heard she was suffering from the immune system disease.
Vodden died on Monday at St. Thomas Lupus Trust in London, where she had been treated for more than five years.
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