Perdita
28-09-2009, 17:20
The woman who inspired the classic Beatles song 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' has died of lupus, aged 46.
Lucy Vodden passed away at St Thomas' Hospital in London following a long battle with the disease, according to a charity.
The housewife was a childhood friend of John Lennon's son Julian.
She became the inspiration for the iconic song after Julian returned home from school with a drawing of her and told his father that it was "Lucy in the sky with diamonds".
Lennon later took the concept and transformed it into the classic song, which featured on the group's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album in 1967.
"It's so sad that she had finally lost the battle she fought so bravely for so long," Angie Davidson, the campaign director for the St. Thomas' Lupus Trust charity, told Reuters.
She added that Julian and his mother Cynthia, Lennon's first wife, were "shocked and saddened by the loss of Lucy".
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/a179489/beatles-lucy-in-the-sky-dies-aged-46.html
:( RIP Lucy
Lucy Vodden passed away at St Thomas' Hospital in London following a long battle with the disease, according to a charity.
The housewife was a childhood friend of John Lennon's son Julian.
She became the inspiration for the iconic song after Julian returned home from school with a drawing of her and told his father that it was "Lucy in the sky with diamonds".
Lennon later took the concept and transformed it into the classic song, which featured on the group's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album in 1967.
"It's so sad that she had finally lost the battle she fought so bravely for so long," Angie Davidson, the campaign director for the St. Thomas' Lupus Trust charity, told Reuters.
She added that Julian and his mother Cynthia, Lennon's first wife, were "shocked and saddened by the loss of Lucy".
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/a179489/beatles-lucy-in-the-sky-dies-aged-46.html
:( RIP Lucy