The lyrics were inspired by Lewis Carol's "Alice in Wonderland". His son Julian came home with a drawing of a girl from his class, and when John asked him what he was calling it, Julian said, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." He told Paul and they wrote the song. The entire album was absolutely genius, ahead of its time, groundbreaking, there aren't enough words to describe the impact of this album on music, fashion, culture, you name it.
@@robperry5293no, John was inspired by a drawing that his son Julian drew in school and John asked him who is the lady in the picture. Julian answered Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. There has been a lot of arguments about it. Remember a prolific song writer like Lennon is going to be able to conjure up surrealist images without the benefit of psychotropic drugs.
@@IAMCAVE Come on man. There was a picture but don't be daft now. They were taking LSD on a regular basis at this time. John is trying to not be held responsible for massive amounts of people taking acid after hearing this song.
This is the very definition of psychedelic, more for the lyrical imagery than anything. Truth is it doesn't need to have anything to do with drugs. The inspiration was a drawing that Julian brought home from school of a little girl. The lyrics deserve more credit than you're giving them for how successfully he paints the picture with them.
McCartney played the organ on this track. As a side note, Geoffrey Emerick who was the engineer, said that for this album Paul broke with tradition and added the bass passages last. He would come in after hours, sit by himself with the lights out, and working by candlelight. He wrote a book called ‘Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles’. Really interesting, should you decide to read it.
It makes the heads explode of modern studio engineers who can't believe what artists with other worldy skills can achieve with 'primitive' 60s tech. Beyond belief they were!
These guys just don’t miss, they produced 8 straight years of massive hits. Many album tracks could have been top 40 singles. The Beatles rule to this day 54 years after breaking up!
@@gregcable3250 The Beach Boys for sure, they reached the highest highs that the Beatles did, but unfortunately band dynamics, label pressure, and Brian Wilson's mental deterioration meant they could not hope to match the Beatles' torrential output of great music once 1967 came around.
@@gregcable3250 Greg my friend, how could I possibly argue with you. Many argue Led Zeppelin or The Stones as the greatest and we could say without argument that Zeps members were superior musicians and Plant a tremendous lyricist. However, when it comes to changing and growing front album to album, The Beatles were a complete book. Their influence and impact is still ringing in people’s ears 63 years since their first record release.. not even the mighty Led Zeppelin or the greatest American band Lynyrd Skynyrd could match the Beatles, their is a magic there that’s unmatched and inescapable. Paul and John alone are gifts from music heaven and then add in the greatest number 3 guy in music history George and then the beautiful icing on the perfect cake Ringo!! Saw him 9x in concert and he’s far, far, far greater than ever given credit. Saw George once for Bob Dylan tribute at MSG and Paul 8x.. All were beyond words , couldn’t fathom what we were all cheated out of in seeing the complete band!!! So yes I am with you 100% , just took me a while to express!!!!
@@titusho2 I agree with you 100%. Just as Muhammad Ali was so much more than a boxer, The Beatles were so much more than just a band! Their influences in everything still carries weight today. No words in the dictionary to describe their very long reach!
A psychedelic masterpiece, so many wonderful sounds especially those heavenly backing aaaahhhhs. And yes , they are still on a different planet. Can you imagine hearing this as a 17 year old in 67. ( I was only nine)
Lucy In The Sky with diamonds. It was said for many years that it represented LSD, Lucy, Sky, Diamonds. Its a trippy enough song, so everybody believed it. but john said his 5 year old son came home with a drawing he did, and he said "Thats Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." Lucy being a classmate of his. That's the real origin of this song
This whole album is genius on display, writing, different recording techniques, everything. Always gives me a smile and lifts my mood to listen to this album. I absolutely love it! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍💯
Supposedly one of the inspirations for the title was when John's son Julian Lennon came home from pre-school with a picture of his friend Lucy flying in the sky with stars and when John asked him what it was he said "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". Fans interpreted that to mean LSD, which John could have been intending a play on words, but the origin was his son's drawing.
The song was written by John, inspired by a picture his young son did and he called it "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". That's the starting point but clearly it is heavily influenced by LSD. No Billy on this one, he arrived during the Get Back project, January, 1969.
George's guitar was put through a Leslie speaker cabinet which is normally used for Hammond organs. That's what gives it that chorus-type sound. A Leslie applies a Doppler effect to the sound and as far as I know, they were the first ones to do it. Great reaction guys thank you.
This is 1967. The only Beatles music from the 70s is Get Back which was actually recorded in 1969. Everything they recorded was from 1963 to 1969. Seven years, and they changed the face of popular music forever.
We stood in line to buy this album then we locked ourselves in the bedroom and listened to it for five hours until our parents beat on the door! The most influential music in my life! 🙂✌🧡, PJ
Born in the mid-60s to 19 year old parents. You better believe I grew up on The Beatles! This was one of my favorites, it's easy for a kid to sing along to the chorus. When you're so young & this is the music you first hear, it doesn't sound 'weird', it's just normal. GenX got their ears trained by this kind of music & set us up for the 70s & then the wild, experimental music & videos on 80s MTV. We thought the unusual stuff was cool, not weird, thanks to the Beatles and other iconic musicians who trained our ears early! 😂🤩
My uncle bought me this album when it came out. I was 2 years old. I played all my little kid’s records over the next few years, and I played Sgt. Pepper’s. I knew every word but had no idea what a lot of the words meant until later. This song was perfect for a little kid’s mind. It was like a cartoon, even if I didn’t know what “cellophane”, “plasticine”, or “turnstile” meant. I still have the record, and it still plays. I lost the paper dolls that came with it.
As John has said in interviews, his first son Julian Lennon came home from school with a picture he had drawn and John asked him what it was and Julian said: "It's Lucy in the sky with diamonds," John said in interviews it did not stand for LDS. He also said he has admitted when his songs were about drugs but the title of this song was not based on drugs but a picture J=a young Julian Lennon drew.
While the Fabsters were done as a touring act by the time this dropped (and would've been hard put to bring it off under the technical constraints of the time), I once saw the Grateful Dead close out a three-night run outside of Indy with this, and of course the place went utterly up for grabs ---that chorus is just pure ecstasy
@@frankamedure9248 Actually, around that time, Paul admitted they were dropping acid...virtually defended it. That was met with a lot of criticism, to say the least.
Lennon always insisted that this song was inspired by a drawing by his young son of a school mate named Lucy. The drawing exists and has been shown in various Beatles books. But Lennon was definitely tripping hard all the time during this period.
@@tracyyork1428David Gilmore bought that drawing at auction. Of course, they had said it was lost at the time John said that, then several years later, it resurfaced. It doesn’t look like a child’s drawing to me, but more like something they produced to validate the story.
True story. The next day after the Beatles played Ed Sullivan for the first time, everyone was saying did you see the Beatles last night. I kept saying, you mean the ants. At the same time Ed was on, there was a Sci-Fi on the other channel that featured Giant Ants. Still haven't lived that down. This was the beauty of loving music during the ascension of the Beatles. Every album was a new journey in perhaps a different direction. New instruments, new verbal images to consider, new musical directions they were taking us in. It was a great time to love Rock and Roll.
😂I was 4 years old when I saw the Beatles debut on Ed Sullivan. I remember my eyes popping out when I saw their "long" hair and my dad changing channels in disgust. Little did we know that we would both become Beatles fans by the end of the '60's. (I wish I had known about the ant movie at the time, but I think you're talking about an episode of The Outer Limits, starring Bruce Dern. 🤠)
I think the guitar is run through a Leslie speaker on fast rotation in the chorus, one of my very favourite guitar sounds. I was playing this on acoustic for my kids shortly after they'd seen 'Yellow Submarine', looked up and my son was acting out the imagery from the movie, dancing out of the room in slo-mo, looking, smiling back over his shoulder. Priceless memory. ✌🏼😊🎶❤️🍁❤️✨️🕊
John Lennon was a big fan of Lewis Carrol who wrote Alice In Wonderland. So you get that feel. The title came from his son who came home from school with a drawing and when John asked him what it was, he said it's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. They sped up John's voice to make it sound child like. Amazing!!!
You can really tell it’s from the 60’s lol love it and the 60’s were full of drugs I remember people at high school were always high on something, thanks for the great review guys.
What is really mind blowing about this album is that it came out in 1967!!... Nobody ever heard anything like this until The Beatles... This could be the most innovative influential album in the history of music ... and this is coming from a hardcore Stones fan!! lol ... thanks guys great job....cant wait until you do The White Album!!
It's a song based on a drawing that John's son, Julian, had drawn of a girl in his school class. Who is that, he was asked. Julian answers it's Lucy in the sky with diamonds. Thus John once again delved into his propensity for writing surreal lyrics though Paul and others were said to have offered suggestions.
John claimed that his son, Julian came home from school and was showing him pictures he had drawn at school. John asked him what’s this one and he said that’s Lucy and in the sky those are diamonds. And John wrote the song Lucy in the sky with diamonds after being inspired by his sons picture from elementary school that he brought home. Folklore to the song is that LSD, the Lucy in the sky with diamonds that it was really a song about tripping on LSD
@@LeChaunce Uh huh. And I'm sure young Julian wasn't trying to make sense of the culturally explosive acronym that couldn't be avoided in 1967. I mean, honestly---do you really imagine John and Paul weren't laughing their arses off? 😉
@@rlwetz4317 Considering they were pretty transparent about every single one of their influences and songwriting process through the entirety of all their respective lives, yes. Yes, I do. [Edited to add] Particularly when they were very open about She Said She Said, Dr. Robert, and Got To Get You Into My Life were all songs inspired by acid, a drug dealer, and weed, respectively.
Such a joy seeing you fellas experience these and sharing your insights. Personally, I have heard the "official" (gloss/PR) version that "John saw one of Julian's books with 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds," and he was inspired. So, the "official" version is that the song is NOT about the experience of taking LSD (Lucy-Sky-Diamonds). Right. The "girl with kaleidoscope eyes" ... Also, it was more of positive that they were leading the charge in mind-expanding drug use, than any kind of a negative. Their use, I believe, was fairly short-lived, but front and center around the time of this album. I hadn't focused on the guitar work before ... love it tracing the vocal line. La, great comment on Ring's playing--always stalwart.
Yeah, "kaleidoscope eyes" was a real thing if you ingested enough. When I closed my eyes and saw it my first thought was "whoa, that's what he meant"! Different intricate geometric patterns came one after another on my eyelids until it got a little scary and I had to open my eyes and move on.
Next song "Getting Better! The coda that starts with " I use to be cruel to my woman, I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved", is musical genius! You two are keeping me wanting! Do two a day? I got this album when I was 12. I wore the first album out and had to buy another one.
John strikes again. John's rich, haunting voice and the vocals in general. Fabulous musicianship. And yes, kudos to George Martin. The greatest album ever made in my book.
Digging this big time! Look at your views and you’ll see people are really into this. Then again it’s the BEATLES! Can’t wait for your review of Magical mystery tour! Keep rocking my biblical Brothers. God bless.
I love the chorus intro by Ringo also. Another banger by the best band ever. It amazes me that 4 geniuses found each other as young boys/men. We are so lucky
I’m a huge Beatles fan from the beginning. I’m a guitarist and I was 15 when this album came out. Imagine listening and hearing this for the first time in 1967.
Julian Lennon, John's oldest son, was a little boy when this was written. He drew a picture that he described as "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." It inspired the name of this song, but, obviously, it's about more than that.
This album is extremely significant in the evolution of sound recording. The revolutionary use of different sound effects and unique instrumentation opened the door for other musicians to continue pushing the boundaries and was influenced by the groundbreaking Beach Boys album, Pet Sounds in 1966. Once you guys are done with Sgt Peppers, you could try doing Pet Sounds
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds is pure poetry. Just read his first two books and you will see that John already had a creative mind before LSD. I’m sure it helped.
The lyrics were inspired by Lewis Carol's "Alice in Wonderland". His son Julian came home with a drawing of a girl from his class, and when John asked him what he was calling it, Julian said, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." He told Paul and they wrote the song. The entire album was absolutely genius, ahead of its time, groundbreaking, there aren't enough words to describe the impact of this album on music, fashion, culture, you name it.
Psychedelic dreamscape
Lucy, Sky, Diamonds = LSD. News paper taxi = cop car.
@@robperry5293no, John was inspired by a drawing that his son Julian drew in school and John asked him who is the lady in the picture. Julian answered Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. There has been a lot of arguments about it. Remember a prolific song writer like Lennon is going to be able to conjure up surrealist images without the benefit of psychotropic drugs.
@@IAMCAVE That's story has already been discredited, because Paul has since admitted this song is about LSD.
@@IAMCAVE Come on man. There was a picture but don't be daft now. They were taking LSD on a regular basis at this time. John is trying to not be held responsible for massive amounts of people taking acid after hearing this song.
@IAMCAVE Bro John was a heavy drug user, also it was still the 60's. Of course he wouldn't tell the whole truth😂
Each Beatles LP is symphonic. When it's over you need to get out into the air and come down.
This is the very definition of psychedelic, more for the lyrical imagery than anything. Truth is it doesn't need to have anything to do with drugs. The inspiration was a drawing that Julian brought home from school of a little girl. The lyrics deserve more credit than you're giving them for how successfully he paints the picture with them.
Who knows what it’s about? It’s whatever you want it to be. I’ve heard it a thousand times and I never try to interpret it. I just enjoy it.
I can not tell you how happy I feel watching your reactions.
thanks for showing this and keeping us aware of what it was like in those far off days of yesteryear.
What a genius; with such a unique and a beautiful voice. RIP John Lennon. 🙏
McCartney played the organ on this track. As a side note, Geoffrey Emerick who was the engineer, said that for this album Paul broke with tradition and added the bass passages last. He would come in after hours, sit by himself with the lights out, and working by candlelight. He wrote a book called ‘Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles’. Really interesting, should you decide to read it.
I've read it. A fantastic read for Beatle fans.
@@SpuzzyLargo Agree.
Great story. I have mad respect for--and enjoyment of--McCartney.
All done with 4 track reel to reel tapes. Amazing.
It makes the heads explode of modern studio engineers who can't believe what artists with other worldy skills can achieve with 'primitive' 60s tech. Beyond belief they were!
George Martin was a BIG part of The Beatles sound. If there was a true fifth Beatle it would be producer George Martin.
I think modern listeners may miss that: at the time, this was a moonshot compared to typical recordings.
It's so obvious you guys appreciate and enjoy the music you listen to. You're always so focused in. One of the best reaction channels on yt.
I cannot wait for you to react to A DAY IN THE LIFE. That will blow your mind
They WERE on another planet .
John wrote this about a picture, his son Julian brought home from school. He said it was Lucy in the sky with diamonds, so he wrote a song about it.
👌so we were told so many moons ago.
@@WillyJackson-if6zf He even had the picture to prove it.
😂😅Yeah sure.
@@danduntz2539 That was just the title. Rest of the lyrics speaks for itself.
It’s about LSD. The end.
another reason why this is one of the greatest albums of all time
(L)ucy in the (S)ky with (D)iamonds
You're spot on... LSD!
Exactly
Say what you will , LSD. Love this band.
Banger after banger…welcome to the party! I think it’s more impressive later in life. I took this album for granted.
These guys just don’t miss, they produced 8 straight years of massive hits. Many album tracks could have been top 40 singles. The Beatles rule to this day 54 years after breaking up!
The GOAT band. Period. End of Discussion. Second place is up to your personal taste.
@@gregcable3250 The Beach Boys for sure, they reached the highest highs that the Beatles did, but unfortunately band dynamics, label pressure, and Brian Wilson's mental deterioration meant they could not hope to match the Beatles' torrential output of great music once 1967 came around.
@@gregcable3250 Greg my friend, how could I possibly argue with you. Many argue Led Zeppelin or The Stones as the greatest and we could say without argument that Zeps members were superior musicians and Plant a tremendous lyricist. However, when it comes to changing and growing front album to album, The Beatles were a complete book. Their influence and impact is still ringing in people’s ears 63 years since their first record release.. not even the mighty Led Zeppelin or the greatest American band Lynyrd Skynyrd could match the Beatles, their is a magic there that’s unmatched and inescapable. Paul and John alone are gifts from music heaven and then add in the greatest number 3 guy in music history George and then the beautiful icing on the perfect cake Ringo!! Saw him 9x in concert and he’s far, far, far greater than ever given credit. Saw George once for Bob Dylan tribute at MSG and Paul 8x.. All were beyond words , couldn’t fathom what we were all cheated out of in seeing the complete band!!! So yes I am with you 100% , just took me a while to express!!!!
@edwardcapobianco2975 🪲🪲🪲🪲 yeah! they still rule 🍏💚💙♥️
@@titusho2 I agree with you 100%. Just as Muhammad Ali was so much more than a boxer, The Beatles were so much more than just a band! Their influences in everything still carries weight today. No words in the dictionary to describe their very long reach!
Undoubtedly the greatest band of all time
*Led Zeppelin
@@Cosmo-Kramernope not even close
@@Cosmo-Kramer Beatles. Then Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Yes, Deep Purple. Then everyone else.
Definitely first ✨️🎶🙏🎶✨️
@@TheGreatGig73I like how you think!
"These guys are something else bro." That is seriously the best comment on the Beatles ever.
It says it all.
"He hit the toms and got the business." I just can't!!! I love you guys so much. 🔥
The Beatles were from another universe. Light years ahead of anyone else. Loving the trip with you guys.
Still light years ahead, even 50 odd years later.
The Beatles didn't shy away from surreal lyrics and sonic experimentation.
Song was definitely ahead of its time
One of my favorite psychedelic songs of all time
elton john did a remarkable remake of this song, IMO, that even john said was incredible (they were friends)
Harmonies are haunting❤️🤘
The ever beautiful " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" .. 🪲🪲🪲🪲🍏🔥🙏💚♥️
A psychedelic masterpiece, so many wonderful sounds especially those heavenly backing aaaahhhhs. And yes , they are still on a different planet. Can you imagine hearing this as a 17 year old in 67. ( I was only nine)
Lucy In The Sky with diamonds. It was said for many years that it represented LSD, Lucy, Sky, Diamonds. Its a trippy enough song, so everybody believed it. but john said his 5 year old son came home with a drawing he did, and he said "Thats Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." Lucy being a classmate of his. That's the real origin of this song
Actually no. They admitted later that it was about an LSD trip.
Psychedelic Beatles is my favorite.
This whole album is genius on display, writing, different recording techniques, everything. Always gives me a smile and lifts my mood to listen to this album. I absolutely love it! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍💯
The greatest of all time
Should listen to "A Day in the Life"
Psycaldelic masterpiece!
Lucy, in the
Sky, with
Diamonds
LSD
It’s so obvious..
I think John’s “official story” about it is total BS.
Buzzinga, if you've dropped you'll laugh and smile
I played this album front to back for weeks on end. Changed my musical life & expectations.
I keep repeating myself, but I love y'all. Great reaction ❤
The song is about Lucy. She's in the sky. She has diamonds.
Three songs in y'all. Gotta lot bangers and craziness to come. Cheers.
The Beatles caused everyone to upgrade their audio systems.
Supposedly one of the inspirations for the title was when John's son Julian Lennon came home from pre-school with a picture of his friend Lucy flying in the sky with stars and when John asked him what it was he said "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". Fans interpreted that to mean LSD, which John could have been intending a play on words, but the origin was his son's drawing.
based on a drawing from his son Julian made of his classmate Lucy O'Donnell
The song was written by John, inspired by a picture his young son did and he called it "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". That's the starting point but clearly it is heavily influenced by LSD. No Billy on this one, he arrived during the Get Back project, January, 1969.
Thanks gents enjoying the trip
Shoulda called it "John in the Sky Trippin' Ba*ls"
😂
"That slaps".
George's guitar was put through a Leslie speaker cabinet which is normally used for Hammond organs. That's what gives it that chorus-type sound. A Leslie applies a Doppler effect to the sound and as far as I know, they were the first ones to do it. Great reaction guys thank you.
This is 1967. The only Beatles music from the 70s is Get Back which was actually recorded in 1969. Everything they recorded was from 1963 to 1969. Seven years, and they changed the face of popular music forever.
A masterpiece - some of the best instrumentals, vocals and lyrics the Beatles ever did.
We stood in line to buy this album then we locked ourselves in the bedroom and listened to it for five hours until our parents beat on the door! The most influential music in my life! 🙂✌🧡, PJ
And it’s still just 1966, you hear that today and you’re going, that’s a kick ass song!
And a controversial song!!
What remaster is this? Ringo’s drums sound amazing
Loving these Beatles reactions boys, keep them coming. Greatest band ever, by a country mile.
They were on Planet Beatles! And, I tell you, it was it a trip! Still is...
Born in the mid-60s to 19 year old parents. You better believe I grew up on The Beatles! This was one of my favorites, it's easy for a kid to sing along to the chorus. When you're so young & this is the music you first hear, it doesn't sound 'weird', it's just normal. GenX got their ears trained by this kind of music & set us up for the 70s & then the wild, experimental music & videos on 80s MTV. We thought the unusual stuff was cool, not weird, thanks to the Beatles and other iconic musicians who trained our ears early! 😂🤩
Lysergic acid diethylamide ✌️
Don't believe any other stories. Awesome reaction gentlemen ❤
Guys. Greatest rock band. Every track catches you.
My uncle bought me this album when it came out. I was 2 years old. I played all my little kid’s records over the next few years, and I played Sgt. Pepper’s. I knew every word but had no idea what a lot of the words meant until later. This song was perfect for a little kid’s mind. It was like a cartoon, even if I didn’t know what “cellophane”, “plasticine”, or “turnstile” meant. I still have the record, and it still plays. I lost the paper dolls that came with it.
As John has said in interviews, his first son Julian Lennon came home from school with a picture he had drawn and John asked him what it was and Julian said: "It's Lucy in the sky with diamonds," John said in interviews it did not stand for LDS. He also said he has admitted when his songs were about drugs but the title of this song was not based on drugs but a picture J=a young Julian Lennon drew.
You're right, they were on an other planet ;)
Dude great job getting this past the streaming police! 🤯
Makes me tingle all over!
While the Fabsters were done as a touring act by the time this dropped (and would've been hard put to bring it off under the technical constraints of the time), I once saw the Grateful Dead close out a three-night run outside of Indy with this, and of course the place went utterly up for grabs ---that chorus is just pure ecstasy
LSD. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds!! John denied it but come on!!
Well yeah they they don't want to come off as pro drugs... It was part of our culture...
@@frankamedure9248 Actually, around that time, Paul admitted they were dropping acid...virtually defended it. That was met with a lot of criticism, to say the least.
Not Billy (Preston) at this point. IIRC, John, Paul, or George Martin were handling the keyboard duties for this album.
Lennon always insisted that this song was inspired by a drawing by his young son of a school mate named Lucy. The drawing exists and has been shown in various Beatles books. But Lennon was definitely tripping hard all the time during this period.
@@tracyyork1428David Gilmore bought that drawing at auction. Of course, they had said it was lost at the time John said that, then several years later, it resurfaced.
It doesn’t look like a child’s drawing to me, but more like something they produced to validate the story.
True story. The next day after the Beatles played Ed Sullivan for the first time, everyone was saying did you see the Beatles last night. I kept saying, you mean the ants. At the same time Ed was on, there was a Sci-Fi on the other channel that featured Giant Ants. Still haven't lived that down.
This was the beauty of loving music during the ascension of the Beatles. Every album was a new journey in perhaps a different direction. New instruments, new verbal images to consider, new musical directions they were taking us in. It was a great time to love Rock and Roll.
Hi Rob! Your story made me laugh SO much! Thank you for my morning laugh! Peace and Blessings to you and yours from Australia!
😂I was 4 years old when I saw the Beatles debut on Ed Sullivan. I remember my eyes popping out when I saw their "long" hair and my dad changing channels in disgust. Little did we know that we would both become Beatles fans by the end of the '60's. (I wish I had known about the ant movie at the time, but I think you're talking about an episode of The Outer Limits, starring Bruce Dern. 🤠)
I think the guitar is run through a Leslie speaker on fast rotation in the chorus, one of my very favourite guitar sounds.
I was playing this on acoustic for my kids shortly after they'd seen 'Yellow Submarine', looked up and my son was acting out the imagery from the movie, dancing out of the room in slo-mo, looking, smiling back over his shoulder. Priceless memory.
✌🏼😊🎶❤️🍁❤️✨️🕊
The title is LSD. They were tripping.
you guys are the best. patreon here i come.
John Lennon was a big fan of Lewis Carrol who wrote Alice In Wonderland. So you get that feel. The title came from his son who came home from school with a drawing and when John asked him what it was, he said it's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. They sped up John's voice to make it sound child like. Amazing!!!
You can really tell it’s from the 60’s lol love it and the 60’s were full of drugs I remember people at high school were always high on something, thanks for the great review guys.
Sometimes I think this is the best song from the whole album, the crown jewel of it all.
I’m not the biggest Beatles fan, ever. But this certainly one my favorite songs by them.
What is really mind blowing about this album is that it came out in 1967!!... Nobody ever heard anything like this until The Beatles... This could be the most innovative influential album in the history of music ... and this is coming from a hardcore Stones fan!! lol ... thanks guys great job....cant wait until you do The White Album!!
It's a song based on a drawing that John's son, Julian, had drawn of a girl in his school class. Who is that, he was asked. Julian answers it's Lucy in the sky with diamonds. Thus John once again delved into his propensity for writing surreal lyrics though Paul and others were said to have offered suggestions.
Oh we all know that's not true. lol. It's LSD and that's the only answer.
Laa and Chee in the Sky with Diamonds!!! Awesome guys
John claimed that his son, Julian came home from school and was showing him pictures he had drawn at school. John asked him what’s this one and he said that’s Lucy and in the sky those are diamonds. And John wrote the song Lucy in the sky with diamonds after being inspired by his sons picture from elementary school that he brought home. Folklore to the song is that LSD, the Lucy in the sky with diamonds that it was really a song about tripping on LSD
Paul corroborates John's story, for what it is worth
@@johnhitchens2265
Riiight. And "I Am The Walrus" was about a field trip to the zoo. 😉
@@rlwetz4317 We've seen the picture. When Lucy died a few years ago from cancer, Julian talked about her, the picture, and the song.
@@LeChaunce
Uh huh. And I'm sure young Julian wasn't trying to make sense of the culturally explosive acronym that couldn't be avoided in 1967. I mean, honestly---do you really imagine John and Paul weren't laughing their arses off? 😉
@@rlwetz4317 Considering they were pretty transparent about every single one of their influences and songwriting process through the entirety of all their respective lives, yes. Yes, I do.
[Edited to add] Particularly when they were very open about She Said She Said, Dr. Robert, and Got To Get You Into My Life were all songs inspired by acid, a drug dealer, and weed, respectively.
its LSD guys..The answer is in the title.Lucy Sky Diamonds..love your work..
Remember your comments about Tomorrow Never Knows ? This is more of that imagery for "recreationals".
Such a joy seeing you fellas experience these and sharing your insights.
Personally, I have heard the "official" (gloss/PR) version that "John saw one of Julian's books with 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds," and he was inspired. So, the "official" version is that the song is NOT about the experience of taking LSD (Lucy-Sky-Diamonds). Right. The "girl with kaleidoscope eyes" ...
Also, it was more of positive that they were leading the charge in mind-expanding drug use, than any kind of a negative. Their use, I believe, was fairly short-lived, but front and center around the time of this album.
I hadn't focused on the guitar work before ... love it tracing the vocal line. La, great comment on Ring's playing--always stalwart.
Yeah, "kaleidoscope eyes" was a real thing if you ingested enough. When I closed my eyes and saw it my first thought was "whoa, that's what he meant"! Different intricate geometric patterns came one after another on my eyelids until it got a little scary and I had to open my eyes and move on.
Kind of waiting for their reaction to the ending of Lovely Rita.
During the hippie days…….lyrics were deep and profound…..I remember, I was there❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Next song "Getting Better! The coda that starts with " I use to be cruel to my woman, I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved", is musical genius! You two are keeping me wanting! Do two a day? I got this album when I was 12. I wore the first album out and had to buy another one.
We just dropped Getting Better. Check our community page for the links. RUclips wouldn’t let us get that one up here
John strikes again. John's rich, haunting voice and the vocals in general. Fabulous musicianship. And yes, kudos to George Martin. The greatest album ever made in my book.
You know, that goes to show that life is mixed with laughter and sorrow
Paul is such underrated baseline guitarist. He made playing the bass cool. Before him nobody wanted to play the bass
*bass
Digging this big time! Look at your views and you’ll see people are really into this. Then again it’s the BEATLES! Can’t wait for your review of Magical mystery tour! Keep rocking my biblical Brothers. God bless.
Peak dropping acid days for The Beatles. Very trippy lyrics.
And gents, the BEST is yet to come!!
Best band ever...and the fact that we are still trying to decipher the lyrics 57 years later...genius
I love the chorus intro by Ringo also. Another banger by the best band ever. It amazes me that 4 geniuses found each other as young boys/men. We are so lucky
I can imagine Paul's bass being a Tuba.
I’m a huge Beatles fan from the beginning. I’m a guitarist and I was 15 when this album came out. Imagine listening and hearing this for the first time in 1967.
Julian Lennon, John's oldest son, was a little boy when this was written. He drew a picture that he described as "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." It inspired the name of this song, but, obviously, it's about more than that.
Obviously.
They would have to be really stoned or stupid not to notice.
@@CANDOKNOWHOW hahaha, well played!
@@CuriousGeorge1111 Sounds like an acid trip to me
Yes, it had nothing to do with drugs.
It's a trip if you let go wonderful day
This album is extremely significant in the evolution of sound recording. The revolutionary use of different sound effects and unique instrumentation opened the door for other musicians to continue pushing the boundaries and was influenced by the groundbreaking Beach Boys album, Pet Sounds in 1966. Once you guys are done with Sgt Peppers, you could try doing Pet Sounds
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds is pure poetry. Just read his first two books and you will see that John already had a creative mind before LSD. I’m sure it helped.
He's tripping...LSD...Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Strap in,guys-- the entire album is INCREDIBLE!! Every song! :-) T
Song is a banger. Album is a banger
C’était une époque formidable, j’y retournerais n’importe quand!