Some Words of Wisdom from Ringo Starr

"Whenever we overdid our intake [of drugs], the music we made was absolutely shit. We'd go home real happy with teh tape, and we'd play it when we got home and play it the next day. Every time, we'd come back to record again we'd all look at eachother and say, 'Well, we have to do that on again.' Because you know, it didn't work, it didn't work for the Beatles to be too deranged when making music."
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and sorry about the picture of John smoking, but he looked really hot in that one... lol
I love Ringo!

here... is this a more satisfactory picture of John? you better be happy because I had to go to page 12 of the image results to find it!

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also...

I feel that it is my Civic Duty (ahem, to the Beatles) to spread The Truth. If you do not accept this as Truth you will burn in the fires of Hell!! muahahahaha! jk, jk, jk. ok, here it is:

The Beatles song, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is NOT about LSD as has been the general rumour for the past 40 years. Yes, I have evidence, it's this gigantic book called "the Beatles Anthology" which is a collection of interviews with the Beatles. it's huge, like 12" by 18" and 356 pages long, besides the fact that the print is tiny. So here are the interviews:

Ringo said: "'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' and all the madness that went on around it was absolutely bonkers. I was actually with John when Julain came in with this little kid's painting, a crazy little painting, and John (as the dad) said, 'Oh, what's that?' and Julian said, 'It's Lucy in the sky with diamonds.'And then John got busy."

Paul said: "I showed up at John's house and he had a drawing Julain had done at school with the title ' Lucy in the Sky with Diamsonds' above it. Then we went up to his music room and wrote the song, swapping psychedelic suggestions as we went. I remember coming up with 'cellophane flowers' and 'newspaper taxis' and John answered with things like ' kaleidoscope eyes' and 'looking glass ties'. We never noticed the LSD initial until it was pointed out later - by which point people didn't believe us.

John said: "I saw Mel Torme introducing a Lennon-McCartney show, saying how 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamsonds' was about LSD. It never was, and nobody believes me. I swear to God, or sweart to Mao, or to anybody you like, I had not idea it spelt LSD. This is the truth: my song came home with a drawing and showed me this strange-looking woman flying around. I said, 'What is it?' and he said, 'It's Lucy in the sky with diamsonds,' and I thought, 'That's beautiful.' I immediately wrote a song about it. And the song had gone out, the whole album had been published, and someboydy noticed that the letterse spelt out LSD. I had no idea, and of course after that I was checking all the songsto see what the letterse spelt out. They didn't spell out anything, none of the others. It wasn't about that at all.

The images were from 'Alice in Wonderland'. It was Alice in the boat. She is buying an agg and it turns into Humpy-Dumpty. The woman serving in the shop turns into a sheep, and the next minute they're rowing in a rowing boat somewhere - and I was visualising that. There was also the image of the female who would someday come save me - 'a girld with kaleidoscope eyes' who would come out of the sky. It's not an acid song."

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds; the Beatles

Picture yourself in a boat on a river,

With tangerine trees and marmalade skies

Somebody calls you,

you answer quite slowly,

A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,

Towering over your head.

Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,

And she’s gone.

Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain

Where rocking horse people eat marshmellow pies,

Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers,

That grow so incredibly high.

Newspaper taxis appear on the shore,

Waiting to take you away.

Climb in the back with your head in the clouds,

And you’re gone.

Lucy in the sky with diamonds,

Picture yourself on a train in a station,

With plasticine porters with looking glass ties,

Suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle,

The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes.

PS: (as though you haven't already heard enough from me) has anyone noticed that in the 'psychedelic' songs people use strange imagery, and that some of us use strange imagery too in our poems and stories? I just thought that was kind of interesting; something to think about.