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In 2009, Lennon created a new partnership with Meagher and Birch called theRevolution, LLC. Through this company, Lennon released a tribute song and EP, "Lucy", honouring the memory of Lucy Vodden (née O'Donnell), the little girl who inspired the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", with 50 per cent of the proceeds going to fund Lupus research.
John Lennon said that his inspiration for the song came when his three-year-old son Julian showed him a nursery school drawing that he called "Lucy – in the Sky with Diamonds", [4] depicting his classmate Lucy O'Donnell. [5] Julian later recalled: "I don't know why I called it that or why it stood out from all my other drawings, but I ...
The real story is that the blonde girl was Lucy O’Donnell (later Vodden), a real person who died of lupus in 2009. ... Lennon released the song “Lucy” to honor her memory and donated the ...
Lennon contacted his childhood friend Lucy later in life, and learned she had contracted the auto-immune disease lupus which she eventually died from. A portion of the proceeds from sales of the song and the EP release went to two lupus charities, St. Thomas' Lupus Trust (www.lupus.org.uk) in the United Kingdom and the Lupus Foundation of America.
John says it was called "Lucy in the sky with diamonds" He really liked the name and managed to come up with the later, based on the title. Just a minor note: John Lennon was killed in 1980; Late Night with David Letterman premiered in 1982. What came up later was that the title was misconstrued as a drug reference. Lucy In the Sky with ...
The longtime Tallahasseean was the husband of the late Lucy Morgan, who retired in 2006 after many years as capital bureau chief for the then-St. Petersburg (now Tampa Bay) Times. He had been a ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Victoria is Blake's wife and the Tiger Twins' mother. She also competes with the lions to act with her husband in Siegfried and Roy's show. She has a drinking problem, and has already had 2 liver transplants from baboons. Victoria shares the similar traits of Blake, but she does show at least a little bit of friendliness towards Larry and Kate ...