John Lennon’s "Lucy in the Sky" Lyrics Up for Auction at Profiles in History Auction House
LOS ANGELES (AP).- John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics for the song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” are up for auction, in the latest episode for a storied Beatles classic. Auction house Profiles in History said on Wednesday that it expects the draft lyric sheet to sell for more than $200,000 at a sale next month in Beverly Hills. It has the opening lyrics for the song, and a rough sketch by of four people in a room with windows draped in curtains. When the psychedelic song was released on 1967 album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” listeners and the media speculated it was a thinly disguised paean to the drug LSD, based on the first letters of Lucy, sky and diamonds. But Lennon always disputed that notion, even though he was known to experiment with drugs. Lennon said he did not realize until later the title contained those letters in sequence. As Lennon and others have explained it, the inspiration came from his son, Julian, who was then a child and drew a picture of his
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