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Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds by The Beatles
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Year: 1967
Year: 1967
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is a song written primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon/McCartney, for The Beatles 1967 album Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. This album became the biggest selling album of the 1960s and remains today the biggest selling studio album in countries as far apart as the UK and India.
Lennons son, Julian, inspired the song with a nursery school drawing he called "Lucy — in the sky with diamonds". Shortly after the songs release, speculation arose that the first letter of each of the titles nouns intentionally spelled LSD. Although Lennon denied this, the BBC banned the song.
In a 2004 interview, Paul McCartney admitted that the song is obviously about LSD, stating, "A song like Got to Get You Into My Life, thats directly about pot, although Read full article at wikipedia.org
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