Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds was about doing drugs

[warren0728]

God I must be old if this post is serious.

my thoughts exactly!

 

[ghostofcyberx13]

Well then there's "The Beatles" song on the White Album, "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"(Bang, bang, shoot, shoot). Many believe the song to be about shooting up drugs(Heroin?) and the "Gun" is actually a "Fit" usually an eyedropper with a needle. Although I don't believe any of the Beatles shot up drugs with a needle. Later.

 

[ClearBlueLou]

I’ve always thought that was too much of a stretch, the song is perfectly plain and simple about guns and love, and matches with Bungalow Bill, which takes on hunting just as directly.

 

[uncanni]

Ah yes Twilight Zone we were lucky to get that too, one of those remains in my mind forever and it was powerful seeing it back then.
One where a lady can stop time.
I did think the Monkees TV show was some of the first canned laughter type thing.
If mainstream TV was to brainwash you, where do you think the ideas spread about this, was it radio shows or underground magazines or the opinions of those you spent time with?
I completely get that advertising now is total human mind control science but sometimes I did get that feeling of "this is what they want us to watch"
Did it come from some cool late night horror show that used to pose these questions, a movie or our own curiosity I wonder.

There was a twilight zone episode that changed my life when I was a kid. They changed everyone on their 18th birthday into one of two models--two male types and two female types. You had to pick one or the other. One girl tries to escape; she doesn't want to be changed from plain to beautiful and brainwashed. She is captured and when she wakes up from her operation, she loves her new beauty. I wonder if you can get this: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x41why0

Anyway, that episode captured for me the essence of culture in the US: complete conformity and superficiality. That episode showed in 1964, I was 11 years old, it was the year I fell in love with the Beatles...

 

[Abysmal Vapor]

I always thought Let it be is about MJ... the whole text matches if you think of it while reading it.
When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom
Let it be
****
And when the night is cloudy
There is still a light that shines on me
Shine until tomorrow
Let it be
https://www.songtexte.com/songtext/the-beatles/let-it-be-73d2920d.htm
And how about this classic,lol..
______________________

My head keeps spinning
I go to sleep and keep grinning
If this is just the beginning
My life is gonna be beautiful
--------------------------
Also this one is one of my favorites

 

[Summer]

Anyway, that episode captured for me the essence of culture in the US: complete conformity and superficiality. That episode showed in 1964, I was 11 years old, it was the year I fell in love with the Beatles...

The cookie-cutter youth of today ... all walking around with their heads bowed to a cell phone.

Great music, @Abysmal Vapor.

 

[uncanni]

The cookie-cutter youth of today ... all walking around with their heads bowed to a cell phone.

I know I'm getting old: the present looks bleak.

 

[2 Cycle]

jeez, that song Nookie by Limp Bizkit is a hot mess lyrically. One minute the singer brags about doing it “all” for the nookie, the next he is telling someone else to stick a cookie where the sun don’t shine. What is going on in that song?

 

[little maggie]

I loved the twilight zone. My favorites were based on literature- especially stories by Ambrose Bierce: Chickamauga and Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge

 

[uncanni]

I loved the twilight zone. My favorites were based on literature- especially stories by Ambrose Bierce: Chickamauga and Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge

Wow, I remember the Owl Creek episode!! Amazing exploration of human consciousness in/of time...

 

[looney2nz]

This was much discussed 50 years ago: there is no ‘Lucy’ in the song - just the title, no “hooked on heavy drugs”, the imagery was indeed inspired by psychedelic experiences.

as I recall, while their psychedelic drug use may have infused the lyrics, the original concept was
from a school drawing and story that Julian did while very young. The story made a real impression on the lads, and that's where they took off. No LSD, no drug use, just a precocious young talent telling a story to his dad and uncles.