"Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" is one of the all-time greatest hallucinatory fantasies (rocking horse people and marmalade skies, anyone?), but the woman who inspired the song was very real. Lucy Vodden (née O’Donnell) passed away this week after a battle with lupus, but admitted two years ago that she was the muse behind the Beatles’
Sgt. Pepper tune—and as a toddler, no less. Lucy and Julian Lennon shared a nursery school class in 1966, and Julian made a scribbly drawing of her, later describing her as "in the sky with diamonds" to his father, John. She
told the BBC in 2007, "I remember Julian and I both doing pictures on a double-sided easel, throwing paint at each other, much to the horror of the classroom attendant."
Comments