Does the Beatles “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” stand for LSD?
It’s understandable enough that this myth came about, given the lyrics about tangerine trees, marmalade skies, a girl with kaleidoscope eyes, and other hallucinogenic images. But John Lennon, who actually wrote the words, always maintained that his son Julian came home from school with a drawing of the titular subject, and it was this enchanting artwork that inspired the song. Now, to suggest that the lyrics were influenced by LSD is certainly not a stretch, since in the era of 1967’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band , the Beatles were freshly under the spell of acid guru Timothy Leary, and even admitted to having taken acid for breakfast. But hell, I’ll be a plasticine porter with a looking glass tie before I’ll entertain the thought that the title is a code for LSD! urban legends Definition: A popular story, humorous, ironic or horrifying, and often taking the form of a cautionary tale, which varies in the telling but is always told as true, and usually attributed to a secondhan
