Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

     Written in 1967 by John Lennon for their album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", the song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, became a huge hit. John Lennon was influenced by his son, Julian, who drew a picture in art and called it "Lucy- in the sky with diamonds". When the song released, many people argued that the song's first letters spelled LSD, the drug, and it made sense with the trippy, hallucinogenic song. Shortly after, it was banned by the BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation.
      The drawing by his song, Julian, the inspiration, was of his classmate Lucy O'Donnell. Lennon was shocked when he heard the rumors of his song being an 'acid' song. Who really looks at the initials of a song? This song though has a legacy of its own:
         
               In 1974, anthropologists discovered a 3.2 million year old, 40% complete fossil and named it Lucy because of the song playing over and over again at the excavation camp. Not fully understanding the discovery of their fossil, they came up with the phrase "Lucy in disguise" as a pun on "Lucy in the sky".
 
               The White dwarf star, BPM 37093, 4000 km in diameter and which contains a crystallized carbon core, was named after "Lucy" as a tribute to the song.

      Many artists have done covers on this song and kept the never-ending legacy alive.



      So it just so happened that this amazing song was written during the era of drugs. During the controversy of this song, in June 1967, Paul McCartney did admit that the band had been using LSD. Because they were huge public figures, anything they would partake in became a trend. Not only did they seem symbolic of the shifts in politics, society, and the leftist movement, but they're songs written high on drugs transmitted to the public culture. Their music, culture, and drugs defined the decade.
      With the oncoming use of marijuana in 1966, and the use of LSD, the Beatles discovered every underground drug and trend through their music and spread it through their masses, influencing people to try it also. Their psychedelic songs, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, I am the Walrus, Yellow Submarine, all paint pictures of their hallucinations and they revolutionized the use of drugs.
      Although not every Beatles listener partakes in the Sixties counterculture, there is no doubt that the Beatles radiated their explicit use of drugs to the community and influenced society by their own acid droppings. So it is safe to say that the Beatles are half the reason for the hippie culture which continues to this day.



("The Beatles and Drug Culture in the Sixties", Yvette Holzwarth)
("Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", Wikipedia)