Woman Who Inspired Beatles’ “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” Dies
The real life Lucy from the hit Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” has died.
Lucy O’Donnell Vodden, 46, passed away after a long fight against lupus — a chronic illness during which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissue — at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London on Sunday.
Vodden came to the attention of John Lennon when the Beatles’ young son Julian came home from nursey school one day in 1966 with a drawing of his classmate Lucy O’Donnell that he said was “Lucy in the sky with diamonds.”
The track became a psychedelic masterpiece long associated with LSD use.
Julian — who reached out to his childhood friend in recent years — says he is “shocked and saddened” by the death of the woman who inspired the rock classic.
