The Foundations of Rock: From "Blue Suede Shoes" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"' In an interview in 1975 John said about the inspiration for this song, "Julian came in one day with a picture about a school friend of his named Lucy
Perhaps a bit too ambitious

The Hidden Meaning Of The Beatles' 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds'

What is needed, therefore, is a group of songs whose linguistic styles can be compared to that of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

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Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Until someone pointed it out, I never even thought of it
The Number Ones: Elton John’s “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”
Session tapes from the initial 1 March 1967 recording of this song reveal Lennon originally sang the line " flowers of yellow and green" as a broken phrase, but McCartney suggested that he sing it more fluidly to improve the song
For 10 points: What is the meaning of in the Sky with
I immediately wrote a song about it
Among other sources, the claim has been recited in The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature It was only really from 1968, post-India, that they began working alone
In 1981, all three live songs were issued on 28 November 1974, an Elton John EP The woman serving in the shop turns into a sheep and the next minute they are rowing in a rowing boat somewhere and I was visualizing that

Lucy in the Mind of Lennon: An Empirical Analysis of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Some groups manage the song-writing credits better than others — some do not share it while others do.

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In 1990, the three songs were made available on the box set
Is 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' Code for LSD?
And so a cryptic title like "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," which included lyrical imagery like "marmalade skies" and "the girl with kaleidoscope eyes
Is 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' Code for LSD?
I therefore collected two such groups of comparison songs: the lyrics to other songs that Lennon had recorded in the previous year or so, and the lyrics to the no
Its been common knowledge forever that Paul wrote the middle of Day in the Life It would drive me nuts
It also appeared in the 1976 musical documentary The Beatles recorded "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" in March 1967

The Hidden Meaning Of The Beatles' 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds'

These categories include pronouns, verb tense, cognitive activity, and emotional words, but also prepositions e.

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It's not an acid song
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Of course John helped with the arrangement of the song
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The cover features all their heroes and a previous way of life who are now portrayed as being part of the psychedelic revolution