Yes the girl with kaleidoscope eyes has did after a long battle with Lupus at 46 years of age.. Most people wouldn't realise she actuallly existed as at the time it was thought to be drug related. Sad times.
Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds has passed away
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Do we have a picture of the lady for us younger folk?
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As an adult?
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Wide image with Julian's drawing and her as she appeared when the song was written ..at least apparently.
http://www.jaloubob.com.ar/wp-content/uploads//2009/06/LUCY-IN-THE-SKY-JALOU-BOB.bmp
http://www.jaloubob.com.ar/wp-content/uploads//2009/06/LUCY-IN-THE-SKY-JALOU-BOB.bmp
Thanks for the pic!
Didn't realize that the song was about an actual person.
The teacher in the one anthro class that I took was able to get me to remember another "Lucy" with a reference to this song. When I first saw the headline on Yahoo, I thought "I thought she died millions of years ago" then I remembered that the fossil Lucy was named after the song.
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...and at some stage during the evening the fossil AL 288-1 was nicknamed Lucy, after the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", which was being played loudly and repeatedly on a tape recorder in the camp.
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The teacher in the one anthro class that I took was able to get me to remember another "Lucy" with a reference to this song. When I first saw the headline on Yahoo, I thought "I thought she died millions of years ago" then I remembered that the fossil Lucy was named after the song.
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...and at some stage during the evening the fossil AL 288-1 was nicknamed Lucy, after the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", which was being played loudly and repeatedly on a tape recorder in the camp.
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"Picture yourself in a boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies.
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,
And she's gone.
{CHORUS}
Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Ah... Ah...
{VERSE 2}
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain,
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies.
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers,
That grow so incredibly high.
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore,
Waiting to take you away.
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds,
And you're gone.
{CHORUS}
Picture yourself on a train in a station,
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties.
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile,
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes."
The imagery in that song is so powerful, it makes you WANT to drop acid! LOL!
Very sad news - always thought this was a cute story that got lost in the hype...
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies.
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,
And she's gone.
{CHORUS}
Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Ah... Ah...
{VERSE 2}
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain,
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies.
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers,
That grow so incredibly high.
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore,
Waiting to take you away.
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds,
And you're gone.
{CHORUS}
Picture yourself on a train in a station,
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties.
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile,
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes."
The imagery in that song is so powerful, it makes you WANT to drop acid! LOL!
Very sad news - always thought this was a cute story that got lost in the hype...
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Here's a real funny thing about lyrics and music in general.
I was in a conversation with two musicians ..rock musicians. They're now older (my age) ..so if they're playing ..they've gone "commercial" ..so to speak.
Anyway, at one point in the conversation I tried to example how mainstream rock went "disco". They both looked at me strange.
I brought up "Emotional Rescue"
The one brought up some nuance about "why" it was made the way it was.
I brought up "Holder of a lonely heart" ...they then puked out another exclusive reason why this song was made...
I then brought up "Another one bites the dust" ..and yet another ..alternative universe emerges from these two's lips.
THE WALL.
I finally told them to shut up and that regardless of what propaganda that was published, all of these songs were made to a "danceable beat" and it was ABSOLUTELY due to disco influence. Not that I liked disco except that it was the only chic game in town.
I heard some radio thing on the B52's ..the trivia question was "what are they singing about in Love Shack"
A: Sex
B: Sex
C: Sex
D: a club that they performed at as plebes.
Bang-bang on the door baby! ...
..and John Lennon wasn't referring to anything in a mind enhancing state either.
The girl and the drawing was where he got the title for the song. The rest? I sure don't associate it with a pre-school art session.
Oh, it wasn't about that. Ryeeeeeeee
I was in a conversation with two musicians ..rock musicians. They're now older (my age) ..so if they're playing ..they've gone "commercial" ..so to speak.
Anyway, at one point in the conversation I tried to example how mainstream rock went "disco". They both looked at me strange.
I brought up "Emotional Rescue"
The one brought up some nuance about "why" it was made the way it was.
I brought up "Holder of a lonely heart" ...they then puked out another exclusive reason why this song was made...
I then brought up "Another one bites the dust" ..and yet another ..alternative universe emerges from these two's lips.
THE WALL.
I finally told them to shut up and that regardless of what propaganda that was published, all of these songs were made to a "danceable beat" and it was ABSOLUTELY due to disco influence. Not that I liked disco except that it was the only chic game in town.
I heard some radio thing on the B52's ..the trivia question was "what are they singing about in Love Shack"
A: Sex
B: Sex
C: Sex
D: a club that they performed at as plebes.
Bang-bang on the door baby! ...
..and John Lennon wasn't referring to anything in a mind enhancing state either.
The girl and the drawing was where he got the title for the song. The rest? I sure don't associate it with a pre-school art session.
Oh, it wasn't about that. Ryeeeeeeee
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That's the thing ..the song isn't about a person. It's about an experience that the girl could never have had ..nor likely even imagined. Julian inspired the title.
Like Gary Allan, I can't stand artist's that try to make their songs 'more than they are' or desparately hide what they are about...the Beatles were dropping acid daily at this point in their career, so the imagery is NOT 'coincidental'.....
Its still a great song and story, though!
Its still a great song and story, though!
Do the Beatles have any other "drug" songs?
Pretty much all of them after sgt. pepper's.
Well, I did like the song! And sometimes I can't stand hidden messages in songs either-it depends on what the hidden message is. A long time ago people had to put hidden messages in songs, artwork, etc.
I liked the song but everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY around me thought it was a code for drugs.I don't have any use for drugs-I have seen what drugs can and do in fact do to people. I worked with a woman a long time ago who said she had flashbacks every once in a while after she had used 'acid.' And then she had a child that was badly deformed. I don't know if the drugs had anything to do with that or not. I worked with another woman who 'huffed.' She is dead. I don't have much use for drugs.
A long time ago people put hidden messages in songs and artwork and stories because of severe oppression. People today at least in this country don't even know what oppression is.
I liked the song but everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY around me thought it was a code for drugs.I don't have any use for drugs-I have seen what drugs can and do in fact do to people. I worked with a woman a long time ago who said she had flashbacks every once in a while after she had used 'acid.' And then she had a child that was badly deformed. I don't know if the drugs had anything to do with that or not. I worked with another woman who 'huffed.' She is dead. I don't have much use for drugs.
A long time ago people put hidden messages in songs and artwork and stories because of severe oppression. People today at least in this country don't even know what oppression is.
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Mystic ..where did you work? Seems the watercooler might have been something to avoid
There was nothing hidden in Lucy's song. Lennon could have hit you with a baseball bat and been less obvious.
Let me state that correctly. Regardless of the origin of the title ..whether or not it was coincidence or otherwise in the L-S-D inference ........that was nothing but pure hallucinogenic induced content.
There was nothing hidden in Lucy's song. Lennon could have hit you with a baseball bat and been less obvious.
Let me state that correctly. Regardless of the origin of the title ..whether or not it was coincidence or otherwise in the L-S-D inference ........that was nothing but pure hallucinogenic induced content.
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Pretty much all of them after sgt. pepper's.
Actually, long before that. Most of the 'Revolver' album is about drug experinces ('Dr. Robert', 'She Said, She Said', 'Tommorow Never Knows'); and the Beatles were smoking pot DAILY during the filming of 'Help' before that.....
Pretty much all of them after sgt. pepper's.
Actually, long before that. Most of the 'Revolver' album is about drug experinces ('Dr. Robert', 'She Said, She Said', 'Tommorow Never Knows'); and the Beatles were smoking pot DAILY during the filming of 'Help' before that.....
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Which film had the scene that referenced cocaine with John placing the Coke bottle to his nose? I seem to recall them all sitting cross legged on some floor.
I'm glad I just listen to the music and don't worry about anything else...
like the DOOBIES song " Listen To The Music " , www.youtube.com/watch?v=29RvK7OI2Fg . Simple . Great
ing along song .
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