@@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.
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.
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
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!!!!
@@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.
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.
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! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍💯
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.
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.
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)
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.
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. 🤠)
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.
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! 😂🤩
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.
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
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.
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 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.
super psychedelic! seems like they were going in this direction starting with strawberry fields forever. strawberry fields forever and penny lane were released as a double A side months before sgt. pepper's. would love to see what you think of those!
The title came from a picture that John's young son, Julian drew of a classmate of his. The picture showed a girl with starbursts all around her and he told John that it was "Lucy in the sky with diamonds". The song would get banned for quite a long time in both the UK and US because of the song title initials (LSD) and its alleged drug references. Generally speaking, the lyrics are John being John; he always enjoyed wordplay and creating unique phrasings. Edited to add: yes, they did drugs, however don't ever let that fact make you dismiss The Beatles' god-like talent.
There’s no way in hell they ACCIDENTALLY wrote the perfect LSD ANTHEM for an entire generation with no forethought. It’s a PR story to keep them from being completely blacklisted.
@@CANDOKNOWHOW the origin of the song title came from John himself and was corroborated by Julian. According to Julian; "I don’t know why I called it that or why it stood out from all my other drawings, but I obviously had an affection for Lucy at that age. I used to show Dad everything I’d built or painted at school, and this one sparked off the idea.” Again, I'm only saying that's where the title came from; whatever other intentions John had are his own.
@@henriettaskolnick4445 Yeah, I know the accounts they gave. Honestly, I can see both being true as being possible, but I just don’t think it’s as probable as them scrambling to make up an innocent story fast because the UK was already trying to ban it when they were asked about it. It was the kind of pressure that could’ve resulted in it being ripped off the shelves and banned internationally. Parents and authorities were absolutely pissed about the Youth Culture hippy movement at that time (‘67: Summer of Love). It was a BIG DEAL.. just look at how ‘68 turned out the following year. 🤷
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.
Great reaction of a brilliant song! Love the imagery and the soundscape - it's one of Lennon's masterpieces. Paul's bouncy basslines feature strongly on this whole album. Paul's playing a Lowrey organ on this song. Billy Preston didn't get involved until 1969 (Get Back sessions, Abbey Road).
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.
@@danduntz2539Have you seen the picture? It was bought at auction by David Gilmore of PF. It doesn’t look like a child’s drawing, the geometry alone suggests an adult did it based on Buddhist mandalas for inspiration. I think it was manufactured after the fact to try to corroborate the story. Parent and authorities were already trying to ban them, the Stones, and many other groups from record sales or touring, and they knew they were already in the cross hairs after the backlash they experienced from John saying they were “mor popular than Jesus”. People were on tv smashing and burning their records after that remark. 🤷
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
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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!!!
Lucy O' Donnell was a classmate and friend of Johns son Julian. Julian made a collage picture of her at school (with newspaper taxis) and when John saw the picture he loved it and asked Julian what it was about and Julian said it was Lucy in the sky with diamonds. John swore that the song was not about drugs but no-one believed him. Lucy did not find out she had been immortalised in the song until she was 13. She died in her 40's from an auto-immune disorder and Julian sent flowers and condolences. Lucy is now residing in the night sky which is filled with diamonds..
Nope, it’s not a collage. There’s pictures of it online if you search it, it was bought at auction by David Gilmore. Also, after they were asked to show the picture once John told this story it was “LOST” for several years. Looking at the geometry of the picture, it really seems it wasn’t a kids drawing at all but one created just to validate the story years later.
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.
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.
John's very young son Julian brought home a colorful drawing he did in art class and John asked Julian, what is this? And Julian said, "Its Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". John, being John, turned it into an iconic, psychedelic anthem that everyone (everyone) my age and many older, some younger, know by heart. "Picture yourself on a train in a station with plastocene porters with looking glass ties" (I still have the image of porters--the guys who used to carry your bags on and off the train made of plastocene and the ties on their suits were looking glass). John Lennon was the absolute limit, man.
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.
John Lenon re-recorded this song with Elton John in 1974 and had a #1 hit with it! Elton also appeared on John’s Walls and Bridges album(1974)on the song Whatever Gets You Through The Night. That same year John performed his last live show with Elton at Madison Square Garden! RIP John ❤✌️
I had just finished reading Tolkein's Lord of the Rings and started on A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs when Sgt. Pepper's was released in 1967. Is it any wonder I flunked out of college that year? None of the books I was reading had anything to do with the courses I was taking. I had two 4-track cassettes in my car -- the US version of Animal Tracks by the Animals and a Mose Allison lp but I can't remember which one (might have been Swingin' Machine) -- because they were all I could afford at the time. Sgt. Pepper changed everyone's attitude about rock music, certainly the "establishment's" as we called them then. It was like Dylan said: "There's something going on here but you don't know what it is -- do you, Mr. Jones?"
John Lennon and George Harrison were the guitar players of the group, along with other musical instruments. Paul McCartney was the piano and bass guitar player.
Always a treat to watch your reactions. The Beatles became a sensation before I was old enough to know who they were, but their innovations and musical style is unmatched in pop music. Keep up the great work! ❤
I absolutely loved your reaction to one of my favorite Beatle' tracks. Your wonder at the sheer mastery of the Fab Four is a joy to behold. Thanks, guys. By the way, it's no secret that the B's were taking drugs during this period of psychedelic excellence.
Too early for Billy Preston. He was invited to play on the Get Back/Let It Be album sessions, beautifully documented on Peter Jackson's "Get Back" series, in January 1969. He also did tracks with the Beatles on two songs from Abbey Road. I believe he played on Something and I Want You (She's So Heavy). Open to correction on that as appropriate. 1967 Sgt Pepper was an entirely different period in the life of the Beatles as a band, and, at this point they were really coming into their own as a studio-only band.
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😂
(L)ucy in the (S)ky with (D)iamonds
You're spot on... LSD!
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
I can not tell you how happy I feel watching your reactions.
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 🍏💚💙♥️
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.
What a genius; with such a unique and a beautiful voice. RIP John Lennon. 🙏
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.
They WERE on another planet .
another reason why this is one of the greatest albums of all time
"He hit the toms and got the business." I just can't!!! I love you guys so much. 🔥
"These guys are something else bro." That is seriously the best comment on the Beatles ever.
It says it all.
The Beatles were from another universe. Light years ahead of anyone else. Loving the trip with you guys.
Banger after banger…welcome to the party! I think it’s more impressive later in life. I took this album for granted.
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
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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.
The Beatles didn't shy away from surreal lyrics and sonic experimentation.
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! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍💯
One of my favorite psychedelic songs of all time
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.
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
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.
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)
Song was definitely ahead of its time
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.
Thanks gents enjoying the trip
La and Che, you got me trippin😂😂 Great start to the week!! Appreciate it, fellas😊❤👏🙏
Laa and Chee in the Sky with Diamonds!!! Awesome guys
You're right, they were on an other planet ;)
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. 🤠)
its LSD guys..The answer is in the title.Lucy Sky Diamonds..love your work..
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.
LSD !!
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! 😂🤩
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.
They were on Planet Beatles! And, I tell you, it was it a trip! Still is...
Makes me tingle all over!
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
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.
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 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.
I played this album front to back for weeks on end. Changed my musical life & expectations.
Dude great job getting this past the streaming police! 🤯
super psychedelic! seems like they were going in this direction starting with strawberry fields forever. strawberry fields forever and penny lane were released as a double A side months before sgt. pepper's. would love to see what you think of those!
The title came from a picture that John's young son, Julian drew of a classmate of his. The picture showed a girl with starbursts all around her and he told John that it was "Lucy in the sky with diamonds". The song would get banned for quite a long time in both the UK and US because of the song title initials (LSD) and its alleged drug references. Generally speaking, the lyrics are John being John; he always enjoyed wordplay and creating unique phrasings. Edited to add: yes, they did drugs, however don't ever let that fact make you dismiss The Beatles' god-like talent.
And Lucy died from Lupus decades later.
@@danduntz2539 yes, sadly. To this day, Julian is an advocate for a cure, in addition to other philanthropic efforts he's created.
There’s no way in hell they ACCIDENTALLY wrote the perfect LSD ANTHEM for an entire generation with no forethought.
It’s a PR story to keep them from being completely blacklisted.
@@CANDOKNOWHOW the origin of the song title came from John himself and was corroborated by Julian. According to Julian; "I don’t know why I called it that or why it stood out from all my other drawings, but I obviously had an affection for Lucy at that age. I used to show Dad everything I’d built or painted at school, and this one sparked off the idea.” Again, I'm only saying that's where the title came from; whatever other intentions John had are his own.
@@henriettaskolnick4445 Yeah, I know the accounts they gave. Honestly, I can see both being true as being possible, but I just don’t think it’s as probable as them scrambling to make up an innocent story fast because the UK was already trying to ban it when they were asked about it. It was the kind of pressure that could’ve resulted in it being ripped off the shelves and banned internationally.
Parents and authorities were absolutely pissed about the Youth Culture hippy movement at that time (‘67: Summer of Love). It was a BIG DEAL.. just look at how ‘68 turned out the following year. 🤷
I keep repeating myself, but I love y'all. Great reaction ❤
I can imagine Paul's bass being a Tuba.
Loving these Beatles reactions boys, keep them coming. Greatest band ever, by a country mile.
Paul is such underrated baseline guitarist. He made playing the bass cool. Before him nobody wanted to play the bass
*bass
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.
Harmonies are haunting❤️🤘
Song is a banger. Album is a banger
A masterpiece - some of the best instrumentals, vocals and lyrics the Beatles ever did.
The ever beautiful " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" .. 🪲🪲🪲🪲🍏🔥🙏💚♥️
Tripping
So incredibly high...
Great reaction of a brilliant song! Love the imagery and the soundscape - it's one of Lennon's masterpieces. Paul's bouncy basslines feature strongly on this whole album.
Paul's playing a Lowrey organ on this song. Billy Preston didn't get involved until 1969 (Get Back sessions, Abbey Road).
Yeah and George Martin played the piano.
Key words...Lucy, Sky, Diamonds
Bingo
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.
L.S.D. (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds)
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (LSD)
Of course we all know they denied the acronym at the time but nobody's buying it 😁
He even had the picture from Julian to prove it. ‘Lucy’ died from lupus years later. It’s easy to assume, but much harder to understand truth.
Both stories can be true. There WAS a picture. And there was LSD experimentation going on in the band as portrayed by the lyrics
@@jaquestraw1 Got that right!
@@danduntz2539Have you seen the picture? It was bought at auction by David Gilmore of PF.
It doesn’t look like a child’s drawing, the geometry alone suggests an adult did it based on Buddhist mandalas for inspiration.
I think it was manufactured after the fact to try to corroborate the story.
Parent and authorities were already trying to ban them, the Stones, and many other groups from record sales or touring, and they knew they were already in the cross hairs after the backlash they experienced from John saying they were “mor popular than Jesus”.
People were on tv smashing and burning their records after that remark. 🤷
He's tripping...LSD...Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
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
It’s psychedelic!😵💫🤩
you guys are the best. patreon here i come.
Three songs in y'all. Gotta lot bangers and craziness to come. Cheers.
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.
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.
During the hippie days…….lyrics were deep and profound…..I remember, I was there❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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.
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!!
Elton John did his own terrific cover of this song. Definitely worth a listen.
I seem to remember John Lennon played guitar on it but went by a different name, something like Sir Winston O'Boogie, lol.
I looked it up: Dr. Winston O'Boogie. 😂
Strap in,guys-- the entire album is INCREDIBLE!! Every song! :-) T
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!!!
And it’s still just 1966, you hear that today and you’re going, that’s a kick ass song!
And a controversial song!!
And gents, the BEST is yet to come!!
Lucy O' Donnell was a classmate and friend of Johns son Julian. Julian made a collage picture of her at school (with newspaper taxis) and when John saw the picture he loved it and asked Julian what it was about and Julian said it was Lucy in the sky with diamonds. John swore that the song was not about drugs but no-one believed him. Lucy did not find out she had been immortalised in the song until she was 13. She died in her 40's from an auto-immune disorder and Julian sent flowers and condolences. Lucy is now residing in the night sky which is filled with diamonds..
Nope, it’s not a collage.
There’s pictures of it online if you search it, it was bought at auction by David Gilmore.
Also, after they were asked to show the picture once John told this story it was “LOST” for several years.
Looking at the geometry of the picture, it really seems it wasn’t a kids drawing at all but one created just to validate the story years later.
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 Beatles is my favorite.
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.
Hey you guys are great.
thanks for showing this and keeping us aware of what it was like in those far off days of yesteryear.
John's very young son Julian brought home a colorful drawing he did in art class and John asked Julian, what is this? And Julian said, "Its Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". John, being John, turned it into an iconic, psychedelic anthem that everyone (everyone) my age and many older, some younger, know by heart. "Picture yourself on a train in a station with plastocene porters with looking glass ties" (I still have the image of porters--the guys who used to carry your bags on and off the train made of plastocene and the ties on their suits were looking glass). John Lennon was the absolute limit, man.
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.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds. LSD.
LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS ( LSD ) 😊 REMEMBER THE BEATLES EXPERIMENTED WITH ACID IN THOSE EARLYYYY DAYS!
John Lenon re-recorded this song with Elton John in 1974 and had a #1 hit with it! Elton also appeared on John’s Walls and Bridges album(1974)on the song Whatever Gets You Through The Night. That same year John performed his last live show with Elton at Madison Square Garden! RIP John ❤✌️
I had just finished reading Tolkein's Lord of the Rings and started on A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs when Sgt. Pepper's was released in 1967. Is it any wonder I flunked out of college that year? None of the books I was reading had anything to do with the courses I was taking. I had two 4-track cassettes in my car -- the US version of Animal Tracks by the Animals and a Mose Allison lp but I can't remember which one (might have been Swingin' Machine) -- because they were all I could afford at the time. Sgt. Pepper changed everyone's attitude about rock music, certainly the "establishment's" as we called them then. It was like Dylan said: "There's something going on here but you don't know what it is -- do you, Mr. Jones?"
John Lennon and George Harrison were the guitar players of the group, along with other musical instruments. Paul McCartney was the piano and bass guitar player.
Paul played bass, piano, organ, drums, lead guitar plus other instruments. Both John and George played bass on at least one track too.
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.
LSD gentlemen, Acid. Lucy Sky Diamonds- LSD!
Always a treat to watch your reactions. The Beatles became a sensation before I was old enough to know who they were, but their innovations and musical style is unmatched in pop music. Keep up the great work! ❤
I absolutely loved your reaction to one of my favorite Beatle' tracks. Your wonder at the sheer mastery of the Fab Four is a joy to behold. Thanks, guys. By the way, it's no secret that the B's were taking drugs during this period of psychedelic excellence.
I love your breakdown of all the songs you do but ESPECIALLY the Beatles. You guys are such a fresh approach to music ❤
Say what you will , LSD. Love this band.
Hendrix -The stars who play with Laughing Sam's Dice springs to mind-LSD
Yes! Great song!!
The title stands for LSD. LucySky Diamonds 😎
The Beatles were big on taking “trips “ during this period.
Too early for Billy Preston. He was invited to play on the Get Back/Let It Be album sessions, beautifully documented on Peter Jackson's "Get Back" series, in January 1969. He also did tracks with the Beatles on two songs from Abbey Road. I believe he played on Something and I Want You (She's So Heavy). Open to correction on that as appropriate.
1967 Sgt Pepper was an entirely different period in the life of the Beatles as a band, and, at this point they were really coming into their own as a studio-only band.