RANDOM MUSINGS FROM THE TOP OF THE HILL

5/16/2006

BEATLES

BEATLES

Two of the Beatles most famous songs could be about two of my favorite girls. Alas, it turns out that Paul McCartney wrote MICHELLE about no one in particular and John Lennon wrote Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds about Lucy O'Donnell, a friend of his little son, Julian. The second one is a fooler for me. I always thought Lennon was writing about Lysergic acid diethylamide.

If you weren't at least a teenager by the late nineteen sixties, you have no idea how popular the Beatles were. I have seen nothing like it since and doubt I ever will. Then again, maybe I'm just old, ill-informed and out of it.

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