It eventually proved to be the track on the album with the most impact. Indeed, it inspired a Peter-Pan-esque revolution:. For it set the pattern for British psychedelic rock as a marriage of self-consciously poetic language with visions of earliest childhood. Thus Pink Floyd's concept album The Piper At the Gates of Dawn would borrow a chapter heading from Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows , Keith West would make the Top 10 with an Enid Blytonish song about children mourning a village grocer, and Traffic's Hole in My Shoe uses a lisping Alice voice-over to evoke 'a place where happiness reigned all the year round and music played ever so loudly.
There is a reason that children's literature affects us so profoundly. On the surface it can seem simplistic and colorful, even silly. However the mark of a great children's book is that it leaves a lifelong imprint on its young readers. Children's literature can break through our tough adult exteriors to draw out the starry-eyed little kid that we try so hard to hide.
Yes, we can go on for days about literary giants like James Joyce, T. Just because you're not ostensibly writing for a young audience does not mean that your literature, lyrics, or poetry cannot touch the inner child that is within us all. We are so quick to dismiss books like Where the Wild Things Are or Goodnight Moon as sheer fluff, but where would we be without them? Lewis Carroll made brilliant social commentary in his work while under the guise of following a seven-year-old girl around Wonderland.
Many other writers have recognized the power and depth of wordplay and crazy imagery. Seuss, anyone? It's hard to explain exactly what draws us to children's stories and children's rhymes. We're pretty sure that it has something to do with a desire to reclaim the lack of responsibility, curiosity, and sense of wonder that defined our own childhoods, something that we neglect all too often in our serious, scheduled, "important," adult lives. It's fitting, therefore, that the inspiration for "Lucy in the Sky" initially came from the imaginative drawing of a little boy.
Lennon saw in his son's artwork what most adults would fail to notice: potential. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide. Previous Next. Meaning What Were They On? However, Norman is also quick to point out: Ironically for an album that would be so much identified with LSD, the Beatles took almost no acid while making Sgt. More from Groovy History. Bob Crane The Story!
Woodstock Photos. Share On Facebook. As for the rest of the bio? Remember the Good Times. Fact Checks. John Lennon deliberately chose the song title Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds because the initial letters of key words form the acrostic "LSD". False About this rating. Top Fact Checks. View all. Most Searched. According tot him, the song was primarily inspired by a beautiful drawing his son, Julian, came home with from school.
He added that the imagery in the song was from the iconic Alice in Wonderland , while the girl with kaleidoscope eyes from the sky represented a woman who would someday save him.
I agree, also after getting thoroughly trashed by the press and public over his comments about the Beatles and Christianity, I believe it was about the drug LSD and he concocted a bogus story about his kid drawing a picture. Name Optional. May 14,
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