Diamonds

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I thought I was getting a bargain, but in the end I have a paper weight that will never see the table again. The recording of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" began with rehearsals in Studio 2 at Abbey Road on 28 February 1967. In 2013, Dave Swanson of Ultimate Classic Rock ranked "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" fourth on his list of the "Top 10 Beatles Psychedelic Songs" saying that, despite Lennon's insistence about the inspiration for its title, the track is "Three-and-a-half minutes of pure lysergic bliss, full of picturesque and surreal lyrics set to one of the Beatles' most trippy songs. The phrase "Lucy in the sky" became "Lucy in disguise" to the anthropologists, because they initially did not understand the impact of their discovery.

In 2019, Billboard ranked him as the greatest solo artist of all time (third overall behind the Beatles and the Rolling Stones). Among its many cover versions, a 1974 recording by Elton John – with a guest appearance by Lennon – was a number 1 hit in the US and Canada.Lennon later said he was surprised at the idea the title was a hidden reference to LSD, [3] countering that the song "wasn't about that at all," [4] and it "was purely unconscious that it came out to be LSD.

The six-disc collection also included take five and the last of the eleven mono mixes made on 2 March 1967. John has continued to record new music since then, including the albums Songs from the West Coast (2001), The Diving Board (2013), Wonderful Crazy Night (2016), and The Lockdown Sessions (2021).The two-CD set (34 tracks) comes in standard jewel case packaging with a 16-page booklet while the 180g double vinyl package comes with printed inner sleeves and a download code. Pepper album, Disc and Music Echo magazine wrote that "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was "easily remembered", that the song spotlighted John Lennon's "peculiarly insinuating" vocals, and that it "jumps along on a crashing clavicord-type sound. In 2009 Julian with James Scott Cook and Todd Meagher released " Lucy", a song that is a quasi-follow-up to the Beatles song.