The Real Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Passes Away

Lucy Vodden, the inspiration for the famous Beatles song "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" passed away yesterday at the age of 46 from the disease Lupus.

Vodden attended the same elementary school as John Lennon's son, Julian. One day returning home from class, Julian had a picture he drew of his good friend Lucy proclaiming to his father "It's Lucy in the sky with diamonds!". The rest is history I suppose.

The tune appeared on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band and has long been a classic amongst other Beatles song as well as one of the most quintessential psychedelic pop song ever recorded.

Many have assumed that the song was a blatant drug reference since the song's initialed titled becomes LSD. "Lucy" was even banned from the BBC for such a suspicion. Lennon always refuted these claims and insisted his son named the song for him.