John Lennon needed to rerecord ‘abysmal’ Lucy within the Sky with Diamonds
The Beatles launched their eighth studio album, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, in 1967, and it was met with nice reward.
The document included such large hits as A Day within the Life, A Little Help from My Friends, and Fixing a Hole.
But one of the crucial highly effective songs on the album is Lucy within the Sky with Diamonds, a monitor that has develop into iconic within the Fab Four’s repertoire within the a long time which have handed.
However in style Lucy within the Sky with Diamonds was, its author, John Lennon, was not pleased with it.
In his ultimate interview earlier than he was murdered, Lennon defined: “As far as we were concerned, we were the best, but we thought we were the best before anybody else had even heard of us, back in Hamburg and Liverpool. So in that respect, I think The Beatles are the best thing that ever happened in pop music.” (Via Cheatsheet)
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Lennon then went on to say that, despite the fact that he felt the Fab Four had been the very best band round, he could not stand listening to their music.
“You play me those tracks and I want to remake every damn one of them,” Lennon said, before taking aim at the fan-favourite track.
He said: “I heard Lucy within the Sky with Diamonds final night time. It’s abysmal, you recognize?”
Lennon added: “The monitor is simply horrible. I imply, it’s a nice monitor, an awesome tune, however it isn’t an awesome monitor as a result of it wasn’t made proper. You know what I imply?”
He added that he could improve “each” Beatles song if he had the chance to rerecord them.
“But that’s the creative journey, isn’t it?” he added. “That is why you retain going, at all times attempting to make that subsequent one the very best.”
The song was written after Lennon saw a drawing his son, Julian Lennon, had made at school.
The image was of a girl, named Lucy, flying through the air surrounded by diamonds.
Julian later remembered: “I do not know why I known as it that or why it stood out from all my different drawings, however I clearly had an affection for Lucy at that age. I used to point out Dad every thing I’d constructed or painted at college, and this one sparked off the thought.”