inspiration for “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” has died

clipped from music-mix.ew.com Lucy Vodden, the childhood friend of Julian Lennon and the inspiration for the song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” has died from lupus clipped from www.google.com Julian Lennon's schoolfriend Lucy inspired it was inspired by a picture he drew of his classmate Lucy O'Donnell when they were at a nursery school in Weybridge, Surrey, in 1966. clipped from au.news.yahoo.com Julian took the picture home to his father and explained: "It's Lucy in the sky with diamonds." The song, which featured on the Fab Four's 1967 album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, caused huge controversy at the time because of its psychedelic theme and supposed reference to the drug LSD though its initials, a charge always denied as pure coincidence by the songwriter Lennon.