The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

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Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah

 

[BillST4s]

Were you or anyone you knew able to identify all the people on the album cover?

 

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1. Sri Yukestawar Giri (Guru)

2. Aleister Crowley (Dabbler in Sex, Drugs and Magic)

3. Mae West (Actress)

4. Lenny Bruce (Comic)

5. Karlheinz Stockhausen (Composer)

6. W. C. (William Claude) Fields (Actor/Comic)

7. Carl Gustav Jung (Psychologist)

8. Edgar Allen Poe (Writer)

9. Fred Astaire (Actor)

10. Richard Merkin (Artist)

11. Das Varga Girl (by Artist Alberto Vargas)

12. * Leo Gorcey (Actor)

13. Huntz Hall (Actor with Leo Gorcey, one of The Bowery Boys)

14. Simon Rodia (Creator of Watts Towers)

15. Bob Dylan (Musician)

16. Aubrey Beardsley (Illustrator)

17. Sir Robert Peel

18. Aldous Huxley (Writer)

19. Dylan Thomas (Poet)

20. Terry Southern (Writer)

21. Dion (di Mucci) (Singer)

22. Toni Curtis (Actor)

23. Wallace Berman (Actor)

24. Tommy Handley (Comic)

25. Marilyn Monroe (Actress)

26. William Burroughs (Writer)

27. Sri Mahavatara Babaji (Guru)

28. Stan Laurel (Comic)

29. Richard Lindner (Writer)

30. Oliver Hardy (Comic)

31. Karl Marx (Philosopher, Socialist)

32. H.G.(Herbert George) Wells (Writer)

33. Sri Paramahansa Yoganandu (Guru)

34. Anonymous (Wax hairdressers' dummy)

35. Stuart Sutcliff (Artist, former Beatle)

36. Anonymous (Wax hairdressers dummy)

37. Max Miller (Comic)

38. The Petty Girl (by Artist George Petty)

39. Marlon Brando (Actor)

40. Tom Mix (Actor)

41. Oscar Wilde (Writer)

42. Tyrone Power (Actor)

43. Larry Bell (Artist

44. Dr. David Livingstone (Missionary & Explorer)

45. Johnny Weismuller (Swimmer and Actor)

46. Stephen Crane (Writer)

47. Issy Bonn (Comic)

48. George Bernhard Shaw (Writer)

49. H.C.(Horace Clifford) Westermann (Sculptor)

50. Albert Stubbins (Soccer Player)

51. Sri Lahiri Mahasaya (Guru)

52. Lewis Carroll (Writer)

53. T.E. (Thomas Edward) Lawrence (Soldier, Lawrence of Arabia)

54. Sonny Liston (Boxer)

55. The Petty Girl (by Artist George Petty)

56. Wax Model of George Harrison

57. Wax Model of John Lennon

58. Shirley Temple (Kinder Actress)

59. Wax Model von Ringo Starr

60. Wax Model von Paul McCartney

61. Albert Einstein (Physicist)

62. John Lennon (Holding a French Horn)

63. Ringo Starr (Holding a Trumpet)

64. Paul McCartney (Holding a cor anglais)

65. George Harrison (Holding a Flute)

66. Bobby Breen (Singer)

67. Marlene Dietrich (Actress)

68. ** Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi (Indian Leader)

69. Legionnaire from the Order of the Buffalos

70. Diana Dors (Actress)

71. Shirley Temple (Child Actress)

72. Cloth Grandmother Figure of Jann Haworth

73. Cloth Figure of Shirley Temple (Child Actress) by Jann Haworth

74. Mexican Candlestick

75. Television Set

76. Stone Figure of Girl

77. Stone Figure

78. Statue from John Lennon's House

79. Trophy

80. Four-Armed Indian Doll

81. Drum-Skin, Designed by Joe Ephgrave)

82. Hookah (Water tobacco pipe

83. Velvet Snake

84. Japanese Stone Figure

85. Stone Figure of Snow White

86. Garden Gnome

87. Tuba

 

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[BillST4s]

I was shocked to learn that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds stood for LSD. :laughing

The album, which celebrated its 50th anniversary this year, was released in the US the summer before my senior year of high school. It brings back all the memories of the British Invasion, which influenced music (British rock), fashion (the "Mod" look), television (The Avengers), and movies (James Bond) for a decade.

 

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I knew it was when I first heard it.
Remember the old line; Sex drugs and rock n roll?