#lucy in the sky with diamonds

[catfindr]

[soundsof71]

[tavolgisvist]

So long ago Was it in a dream, was it just a dream? I know, yes I know Seemed so very real, it seemed so real to me

(#9 Dream)

Was I just dreaming, was it only yesterday? I used to hold you in my arms

(Real Life)

I thought I could hear, hear Hear, hear Somebody call out my name (John) As it started to rain (John) Two spirits dancing so strange

(#9 Dream)

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

(Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds)

*'The imagery was Alice [Alice in Wonderland] in the boat. And also the image of this female who would come and save me—this secret love that was going to come one day.' (John Lennon, 1980, All We Are Saying by David Sheff)

On a river of sound Through the mirror go around, around I thought I could feel, feel Feel, feel Music touching my soul (nhoJ)** Something warm, sudden cold (nhoJ) The spirit dance was unfolding

(#9 Dream)

**nhoJ and luaP

add to this (mirror) and this (stange dances) and this (looking for you)

for @i-am-the-oyster <33

[ilov3adam]

whillle my gutiarrr genteelly wheeeps

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

[b-33-s]

Experimental

[xivclaymoore]

i love she came in through the bathroom window, get back and lucy in the sky with diamonds so much

[mattsmemes]

[kusochek-cat]

I've been listening to The Beatles too much lately xd

[sir-nowhere-man]

Lucy in the sky :) (with diamonds of course)

[myimaginaryradio]

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles

[harrisonarchive]

“Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” recording session, 1967; photos by Henry Grossman.

“I liked ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’ a lot. John always had a way of having an edge to his songs. I particularly liked the sounds on it where I managed to superimpose some Indian instruments onto the Western music, Thgere were specific things that I had written, like ‘Within You Without You,’ to try to feature the Indian instruments, but under normal circumstances that wouldn’t work on a Western song like ‘Lucy’ which had chord changes and modulations (whereas tamboura and sitars stay in the same key forever). I liked the way the drone of the tamboura could be fitted in there.” - George Harrison, The Beatles Anthology (2000)

“[I]f you listen to ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,’ you’ll hear me try and play the melody on guitar with John’s voice, which is what the instrumentalist does in Hindustani vocal music.” - George Harrison, Guitar World, 1992

Q: “The song [‘I Want To Tell You’] marked a turning point in your playing, and in the history of rock music writing. There’s a weird, jarring chord at the end of every line that mirrors the disturbed feeling of the song. Everybody does that today, but that was the first time we'd heard that in a rock song.” George Harrison: “I’m really pleased that you noticed that. That’s an E7th with an F on the top, played on the piano. I’m really proud of that, because I literally invented that chord. The song was about the frustration we all feel about trying to communicate certain things with just words. I realized the chords I knew at the time just didn’t capture that feeling. So after I got the guitar riff, I experimented until I came up with this dissonant chord that really echoed that sense of frustration. John later borrowed it on Abbey Road. If you listen to ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’ it’s right after John sings ‘it’s driving me mad!’ To my knowledge, there's only been one other song where somebody copped that chord — ‘Back on the Chain Gang’ by the Pretenders.” - Guitar World, 1992 (x)

[tavolgisvist]

Q: There are no “newspaper taxis.” John: Actually, that’s Paul’s line. I was consciously writing poetry, and that’s self-conscious poetry. But the poetry on this album is superior to anything I’ve done because it’s not self-conscious, in that way. I had least trouble writing the songs of all time. Yoko: There’s no bullshit. John: There’s no bullshit.

(John Lennon and Yoko Ono, December 1970, interview with Jann Wenner fo Rolling Stones)

[magical-mysterygirl]

I got inspired by the origin of the song, so this is meant to take place in Julian's imagination, hence the childlike drawing

[rastronomicals]

12:29 AM EDT March 23, 2024:

Elton John - "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" From the Compilation album   Elton John's Greatest Hits Volume II (September 13, 1977)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

★★★★

Originally released as a single MCA-40344 b/w "One Day At A Time" released 1974

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[les4lesbookrecs]

Dyke of the Day: Day 8

Karolina Dean from Runaways

my girl has sooo many stupid nicknames!!!! but i love her anyway!!! shes my favourite glowstick!!!!

Lucy in the Sky Princess Justice Tinkerbell Rainbow Brite Glowstick

also shoutout to vriginia gardener for literally being the most perfect casting choice of all time