John Lennon Explaining Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- There have been plenty of rumors about Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds being a movie about drugs. The theory is that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds represented LSD based on the initials of the song. John Lennon had discounted this theory many times, but this is an interview with Dick Cavett where he addresses the question directly
Lennon's
Son's
Drawing 🤔
Lol, LSD clever observation
I laughed for like an hour
Lmaaaooo
Haha
OMG!!! LMAO!!! YOUR ARE BRILLIANT SIR!!
Lennon was so brutally honest about himself and his music that I have no doubt that he's telling the truth. He never shied away from talking about his drug use and his addictions, and was very candid in particular about his LSD use. This is just one of those cosmic coincidences.
Mix truth in with the lie. It only helps to better deceive.
He was just making jokes hahahaha its so obvious
kaleidoscope eyes has to be an LSD reference though. There's no way it couldn't be.
@@gearoid9835 I agree 100%
julian is extremely talented. 😊✨
So John's son was on l.s.d. When he did his drawing
hdmat101 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA JOHN'S SON ON ACID
+Felipe Jacomossi wouldn't surprise me
Shawn Lennon on acid xD
+DJMinX um you mean his son JULIAN
DJMinX it was not sean it was Julian
I need a GIF of John shaking his legs like he was at the start.
Gfs
He’s high af
Now, i still need that 😂😂
Where is Forrest Gump ?
LOL.😭
😂😂
In the sky with Ice Cream?
Lou Rod Probably just left the room to go back to China
Lou Rod you made my day 🤣🤣🤣
Whether it's true or not it's still a good song to listen to when ur tripping lmao
that whole album is amazing to listen to on Lucy
Even amazing wothout it
Yeah!
Hell yea. I wanna watch beatles love in vegas while I trip now and specifically the part with Lucy in the sky with diamonds
@@colton8331 no
I learned in music appreciation what John Lennon said is right, he's son supposedly drew a picture representing a girl in his class supposedly named Lucy who his son liked and that brought the inspiration. Its creative and true, i understand that people may think it means bizarre hallucinations from a drug or a weird dream, but it's art.
art is inspired by the imagination, the same place dreams and hallucinations originate.
@@h7opolo Also so much legendary music has been inspired by the musicians’ drug use.
You're completely gullible.
Okaaay everyone here is what Cynthia, said about this since she did witness this:
"Sgt. Pepper included one track that everyone was convinced John had written about an LSD trip- 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds'. In fact, the title was Julian's: He had come home from school with a painting of his friend, Lucy. When John asked him what was in it, he'd said, 'It's Lucy in the sky with diamonds.' John of course loved this way out and completely innocent description, straight from his son's unfettered imagination"
And here's what Paul said about this:
"I went up to John's house in Weybridge. When I arrived they (John and Cynthia) were having a cup of tea and he said 'Look at this great drawing Julian's done. Look at the title.' He showed me a drawing on a piece of school paper of a little girl with lots of stars and right across the top there was written in very neat child handwriting, 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds' and we loved it and she was in the sky and it was very trippy to us, So we went upstairs and started writing it. People later thought 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' Was LSD, I swear we didn't notice that when it came out ."
He also said that it was a song that reflected their love of Lewis Carroll's work: "We did the whole thing like an Alice In Wonderland idea, Being on a boat on the river."
Now Pleaaase tell me how John is lying and this song is about LSD?
+Donald Jewett The quote from Cynthia is from her book called John and the quotes from Paul was from a book I have. Well you'd like to THINK it's about LSD, but just know that actually, it's not
+Donald Jewett it's non addictive? John got ADDICTED to that drug for years. He would literally take it everyday and what the fuck it's not for medition? Yes it IS dangerous because it made John so thin and ill looking..
+Daryoosh Fard It's even PROVEN to be inspired by his son's drawing, so who's wrong now 'dumb bitch'? You believe what you want, but I know that what I say is true. You're actually making up the meaning of the song because you're one of these people that look too far into things and try to find meanings in things...
+Daryoosh Fard It's even PROVEN to be inspired by his son's drawing, so who's wrong now 'dumb bitch'? You believe what you want, but I know that what I say is true. You're actually making up the meaning of the song because you're one of these people that look too far into things and try to find meanings in things...
+Chantelle Adlington There really wasn't any reason for John to lie about it.
"Girl with kaleidoscope eyes"
"Rocking horse men eating marshmallows pies"
Lol sure buddy
PandaManWill ya never know kids drawings can be wack as fuck. Also maybe he was on lsd when he did the lyrics but the song itself wasn't inspired by lsd. Idk just theorizing here
marmalade skys and flower 10 miles high.
@@Sandylad846 It may have been inspired by Julians drawing but was compleeted with a little help from his friends!
@@funfreq9282 oh yes he gets high with a little help from his friends
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore, waiting to take you away
Take away the “news” and that’s totally about blotters lol “paper taxis”
"Lucy in the sky with Diamonds" may have been written while he was taking L.S.D, but it's not a song about any drug.
It's all about imagery. The lyrics are supposed to paint pictures in your mind. That's it.
Quay Tgang It makes perfect sense
Coolman88889 I believe that he was sincere about the title, but it's still likely referring to the effects of drugs as he thought that would fit in well. Song lyrics weren't known for being symbolic at the time. It's mostly music videos that do that
John-S lucy is lucifer. the beetles are occultists. thats just a cover up
Quay Tgang it makes sense.
Yes, imagery.
But tell me, how else could anyone think of _that kind_ of imagery?
The reason Julian (john's son) came home with a painting called Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is because whilst being around the Beatles who probably talked about LSD...he wondered what the initials stood for...maybe it's just me
a 5 year old doesnt have the capacity to think you can put "in the" and "with" in between acronyms
Deadeyes X Not all 5 Year olds are the same. That's John Lennon's son we're talking about, he was probably intelligent like when Lennon was little and learned how to play the guitar/violin (forgot which one)
@[TSG] RandomRyan dude im reading this on LSD
The girl was found years later. An actual girl called Lucy in Julian's class.
Perhaps...Lol
Well, to me Lennon was an honest person, he always saïd what he thought so i believe in John
Paul admitted in 2004 that is was about LSD xD
Paul is not John
I didn't say he was :/
Except the part where he contradicted himself on a regular basis. He was quite flexible with the truth at times :D
+StormOneUK I'd like you to provide one example.
I died when he said "Hey Jude " 😭😍😍😂
Beatriz Castejon hai beatriz
Beatriz Castejon when?
@@juliarollins9655 0:00
RIP
I think its because the band played beatles song "hey jude" so john respond it afterward..
Wish we still had John with us 😭
0:01 Jesus, look at that leg movement. It's like John had a coke break or something.
Lmao same thing I thought
😂😂😂 is this the clip they use in forest gump I think it is
gtfo
yes it is but gtfo
Yeah
yup
?
It wasn't just the letters, the lyrics sound like an amazing acid trip.
john is on some shit in this 😂😂
His tea servent drugged him
life, yeah, some shit.
Nah, some musician's do this. I do that because I'm a drummer and can't sit still for too long.
He was definitely tweeking 😂
Its pretty funny at the beginning when theres music and when it cuts to john and the others all you see is john dancing his legs to the music
So here's what the song means to me personally guys, because this is such a beautiful song to me. I'm 100 percent convinced before she died my grandmother took lsd and watched yellow submarine, I used to call her Lucy when I was little and she used to sing me that song. When I finally took lsd and watched the movie it was like she was talking to me using that song, saying hello from the other side. The song in that movie has let me talk to her after she departed from me. Ik it's probably not what the song is for but it's what has happened with me. I love the Beatles and I love my grandma.
This is so lovely and I’ll forever listen to the song in a whole new light :)
Julian has even come out and named Lucy ,a childhood friend from kindergarten she has since passed from Lupus, and he is raising awareness of the disease
Lucy in the sky with Lupis then
Yeah, well maybe little Julian's drawing wasn't about LSD, but the song certainly is. Cavett's reply should have been, "Yeah right, John. Whatever you say."
Esta canción es una obra maestra, John dice que es verdad. John es muy honesto. Es el mejor viajar sin drogas.
My favourite part about this is that Forrest sits where Yoko was sitting.
John said "That's beautiful" when he saw the drawing because of the appropriateness of the name and the imagery to his own interests at the time. Of course it was perfectly innocent on the part of Julian, but John recontexualised it by using it as inspiration for a song about psychedelia. If he didn't even notice the L-S-D in the name, he must have been tripping harder than we thought.
More like LITSWD
@@kingcassius2586 Use title capitalisation. LitSwD
@@LughSummerson Touché
A retrd whos telling the author of the song whats the song about. Gg dimwit
Hahaha okay John.
"Hahaha okay" what? What do you not believe?
"Hahaha okay"? I mean, he wrote the song, he says what it is about
y'all are both taking this too seriously issa meme
*nigguh* it's def about acid
Annabel Li the drawing is real, I think David Gilmour of Pink Floyd is the current owner
Honestly, I don’t care about what inspired John. It’s an amazing song and it makes me dream even without LSD.
Don’t ruin everything with silly conspiracies theories.
John sounded so sad at the end when he said "But nobody believes me,"
awww. :/
John has spoken
so its not about LSD?
"marmalade skies"
"Kaleidoscope eyes"
"Marshmallow pies"
"Cellophane flowers of yellow and green"
If thats not about an acid trip then idk *what* is
John was talking about the title, he wasn't talking about the lyrics
He said Eleanor Rigby and I thought of Endoplasmatic Reticulum. Shit, I need to know the function of that!! Have exams coming up in a few weeks time..
+Mighty Man something to do with ribosomes and protein synthesis I believe(;
Nice editing. I hope Forrest Gump won’t get mad for this
the Beatles have always been under fire for drug references in their music. you don't think John just came up with that excuse to get the media off his ass?
Plot twist - his son just gave him a blank piece of paper whilst John was tripping and he thought it was beautiful 😂
John lenon was definitely on one in this interview
I love that interruption in the end. Like "Who cares Dick?
when your history teacher was wrong :'D for the first time ever
same **dabs**
What child brings home a drawing with Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
John Lennon's child
Thank you for posting this ITS NOT ABOUT LSD
"rocking horse men eating marshmellow pies"
"10 mile high celluloide flowers, and marmalade skys"
kinda a lot of detail forma a childrens drawing man.
Just pure synchronicity... u know how the Universe works. If u know Universal Law, it doesnt surprise you. Quite beautiful actually.
LSD is lovely and powerful, beautiful, but honestly it's nothing like people who don't take it imagine it to be.
L = Lucy
In
The
S = sky
With
D = diamonds
(I do believe John, I just thought this was fun)
@@pete_277 wut
He was tripping in this interview 😂
Gotta thank Julian for this amazing contribution to rock and roll history
Yes sir! Love what he has done for my life!
i do bealive that he got inspired by julian's drawing, while he was high on lsd
Thanks for clarifying!!
LITSWD: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
It bugs me when people say it's a song about LSD!
Paul later admitted that it was abut LSD. Also its pretty obvious for those who actually had an LSD experience, trust me.
By the way, why is it bugs you so much???
Well it doesn't really bug me anymore, I guess what bothered me more is ppl not listening to johns side, if it's about LSD doesn't mean john was lying, the inspiration can still be Julian's painting
With John to be your dad I can imagine his son came up with the idea to mention the lady on his drawing `LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS.
I think his son planned this all out to mess with him
Just give Lennon some respect people!
0:26 - :31 Surprising that John’s talking about the man who great songs you hear in movies like Home Alone and Dick Tracy.
Wasn't his son's drawing 'Lucy in the sky with stars'?
McCartney says it isn't about LSD. McCartney also says he wrote some of the lines. What to believe
I believe him.
John's ancestry is Irish and
the Irish do not lie they simply
improve the truth.A friend who
married Margaret Barry (check
her out) told me she delighted
him with her music and "real"
accounts of her meetings with
fairies and leprechauns.
When she toured she then told some fans she had married
Robert Mitchum.
I believe John
Lennon's
Son's
Drawing
Beautiful Lennon he will live on forever.
A lot of people on commenting have obviously never SEEN the painting by Julian of his school friend Lucy. Google it...
right??
I knew this many years ago :), my brother ecosonda to me, and hey Jude was inspiring by Julian too , but in a sad circumstance .
Thank you for putting that one to bed, R.I.P. John
What was Cavett gonna say at the end? Eleanor Rigby was about her late night visit to the ER?
Simple as that. Beautiful song
Though it could be about drugs or not or maybe he was high while writing the song but here is my idea about the meaning: he is in a dream land and dreams up a perfect girl. He starts off on a river. He has to go back to the real world "newspaper taxis appear on the shore, waiting to take you away." It sounds like he has come to the end of the river at the sea and this fantasy is coming to an end. In the real world he's on a train possibly to his new life . "Plasticine porters" i don't know maybe it's a transition of a new life. Carrying your luggage to something new molding into a new shell. He finds the dream girl in real life.
Now this was released the year after he divorced Cynthia and married Yoko. He is getting used to life without Cynthia as explained in hey Jude. He finds his dream girl Yoko (which he actually admitted to what the song was about)
So yeah I don't know I think it's about Lennon and Yoko.
So, is John crediting Julian for the inspiration? Someone should ask Julian.
Lucy gets Bootik make over... A potent blend of songs about God, War & LSD delicately & seamlessly arranged to bring their individual messages across... 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' by the Beatles, 'Sky Pilot' by Eric Burdon & the Animals and 'Big Sky' by the Kinks. Note that the 3 songs are from the late 60's when creativity seemed to rime naturally with questioning The Man in all his incarnations.
:: BEATLES / ANIMALS / KINKS :: THE SKY TRILOGY :: BOOTIK MOOSIK
Paul also stands by the fact that it's not about drugs
Lol of course he does. They were all high as fuk
oh sure Johnny, sure
How much coke was John on for this interview, also I love his little “hey Jude”
Time stamp it please
MTrayy 0:05
I don't care that I just saw it come out of his mouth. This song is about tripping on acid. lmao Kaleidoscope eyes? Looking glass ties? Cellophane flowers? Read the lyrics. Maybe he got the title from his kid's drawing, but dude's tripping balls.
+Feeliest Realist maybe you need a heroic dose lol
Yeah, Robert, you definitely didn't take enough!!!!!
While tripping, and listening to him on the stereo, we watched a Jimi Hendrix poster on the wall turn into a live performance!
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And I watched field of huge actual 5 to 6 foot tall sunflowers with blooms 12 to 15 inches in diameter, become anthropomorphized cartoon characters, and throw up their hands and laugh hysterically at a small group of us tripping on the lawn next to the field!!!!!
m.chinadaily.com.cn/en//img/attachement/jpg/site1/20160720/f04da2db148418f955d210.jpg
We watched fairies playing in the park!
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And those are just 3 of the most memorable ones!
I also highly recommend that you watch this clip all the way through! Best trip visuals I have ever seen in a movie!
ua-cam.com/video/fQeeXVngdmA/v-deo.html
;)
+PornFree lol 150ug isn't even a lot. Certainly not enough to see what he sings about in the song
He actually sounds pretty sincere in this, so I kind of want to believe him, then I realize that he was probably on something and/or was in a few beatles movies so...
Lennon is on some form of ecstasy in this clip
So where is this picture that his son drew was it kept for like family is it in a museum or like what
The picture is now property of David Gilmour of Pink Floyd
What was the host about to say when he mentioned Eleanor Rigby? Does anyone know?
Was thinking the same shit
+59flower Paul had originally claimed he had made up the name Eleanor Rigby, but later a gravestone was found in Liverool with the name on it.
¿En qué minuto explica el porqué no puedes voltear todos los tazos de un chingadazo?
when started john sang hey jude, very funny
I believe in john.
It actually means " what you see in the sky is diamonds". Our sun which is contained in our firmament is made of diamonds..
after the interview someone pointed out john was wearing a military uniform, so john checked his closet to see what clothes were military or not
it's a replica of elvis's ''us army'' shirt.lennon was a big elvis fan.
The band was known for doing tons of drugs back in the day. The initials are there which that's makes it difficult to deny. Id feel bad if John really was telling the truth. One things for sure though he and the others put out awesome music people will enjoy for years.
Both John and Paul have explained what Lucy In The Shy With Diamonds is about. Here is John's explanation of what the song is about.: ua-cam.com/video/VAZAdhPXQ2w/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
And here is Paul's explanation: ua-cam.com/video/bDUV5rfnJpg/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
Legend
Can we pls just give them a break. I mean for the rest of johns life he kept on being annoyed by this. Even if it is about LSD can we just respect them by not annoying them about it. Same thing with the Paul is dead rumour. I don’t believe in either of those but even if I did I wouldn’t annoy them every single day about it. They did still made INCREDIBLE songs and that’s all that matters.
He was on something on that show
damnt what?! i was living a lie !!
Tai Dog now im singing mgmt's 🎶ur life is a lie🎶 ha I love them
Lucifer in the sky with diamond
yEEEeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhh sure John, sure.
People, The Beatles were far too SMART to do something as stupid as hiding the letters L-S-D in one of their song titles! That's something all those wannabe garage bands in the late '60's would have done thinking they were being clever!
Well I obviously believe John but were they on LSD when they wrote it. But nevertheless it's a beautiful song
Theodore adorno and the tavistock institute wrote ALL Beatles songs, hence why McCartney lost numerous court cases to gain rights to "their" music.
Eleanor Rigby (ER) was about the queen ( a lonely woman in the palace darning Prince Phillip's socks).
John looks like Bo Burnham in this.
Makes perfect sense to me... People are fucking weird tossing around shit.
John was very open about his use with drugs. Like when he got busted for pot in england in 1969 ( I think it was that year) he couldn't go in and out of the country so easily. Why would he need to cover this up?
Here from buzzfeed lol
The comments on this video. :)
The Bible: Lucifer in the heavens with precious stones.
(see Isaiah 14:12-13 and Ezekiel 28:13)
The Beatles: Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
you got it bro, see my post
I knew it had something to do with the devil!!!!
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudeeee
Bruh, you are dumb. None of them were religious and never read the bible
john's approved
Goddammit, people are saying that this song is about LSD and not and there's so much debate. Great, now I wanna take LSD at least once just for the sake of this song
Yeah me too
That's a terrible reason to drop acid. People who drop for reasons like this are the people who have “bad trips” and end up frying their brains. The drug is not a toy unlike weed. This has to be taken for motives to expand your horizons or clear your mind in order to find out how to improve yourself and/or your life. However, it's your body, so I advocate your right to do as you please. Nonetheless, acid is fantastic. Happy tripping! :~)
Everyone needs to try acid once in their lifetime just make sure it's real acid and it's a right dose