LSD

I'm not a huge Beetles fan, I like them but just never bought into the "greatest band of all-time" meme. Anyway, like a lot of folks I had always heard and came to believe that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was some not too cryptic reference to LSD.

Not.

From the Telegraph (UK)...

For years it was thought the song was an ode to hallucinogenic drug LSD, but it was later revealed that Lucy O'Donnell, a nursery classmate of Julian's, was the muse.

As the story goes, one day Lennon was picking Julian up from nursery when his son showed him a picture he had drawn of a girl surrounded by starlike shapes. His father then used the image as the inspiration for the song that features on Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, released in 1967.

But according to Julian, Lucy, now 46 and Mrs Vodden after marriage, is suffering from the chronic auto-immune disease where the body's defence system begins to attack itself, causing damage in joints and organs. Speaking ahead of a new exhibition of John Lennon memorabilia, Julian said: "I've been able to help out a bit. I was so upset to hear what had happened."