The Beatles' Producer Hated When 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' Was in a Show About LSD
Producer George Martin called The Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” a “typical John song.” Martin discussed the public reaction to the track. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was a huge hit in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Producer George Martin worked on The Beatles‘ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. He revealed what he thought of The Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” Subsequently, he hated when the song was used in a program about LSD.
The book The Beatles: Paperback Writer includes an excerpt from Martin’s 1979 book All You Need Is Ears. In the latter book, Martin discussed John Lennon’s songwriting.
“Compared with Paul’s songs, all of which seemed to keep in some sort of touch with reality, John’s had a psychedelic, almost mystical quality,” he said. “‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ was a typical John song in that respect, and a lot of analysts and psychiatrists were later to describe it as the drug song of all time. They were talking rubbish, but the tag stuck.”
Source: Matthew Trzcinski/cheatsheet.com
