Beatles 'drug' song was 'actually inspired by child's painting'

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2007

LONDON (AFP) — For years, Beatles fans have thought that one of the band's most famous songs was about drugs, but a British housewife said Friday it was inspired by a painting of her by John Lennon's young son.

"Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds," a track on the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" which marks its 40th anniversary Friday, was a 1960s drug culture anthem which was widely believed to be about LSD.

But Lucy Vodden, 43, a three-year-old classmate of Julian Lennon when the song was written, told BBC radio: "Julian had painted a picture and on that particular day, his father turned up with the chauffeur to pick him up from school.

"I can imagine him painting a figure and saying: 'That's my friend Lucy at school' and his father consequently asking...