Lucy Vodden (n\u00e9e O\u2019Donnell), who was the inspiration for the Beatles\u2019 song \u201cLucy in the Sky with Diamonds,\u201d has died, following a long battle with the autoimmune disease lupus. The British housewife \u2014 whose passing was announced by the St Thomas\u2019 Lupus Trust charity \u2014 was 46.<\/p>\n
Vodden first achieved pop culture fame as a tot, when John Lennon\u2019s son Julian drew a picture of her in nursery school in 1966. He took the picture home to his pops, explained it as \u201cThat\u2019s Lucy in the sky with diamonds,\u201d and a song legend was born.<\/p>\n
The married housewife officially fessed up to being the Lucy from the classic song \u2014 which was released as a part of the group\u2019s iconic \u201cSgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band\u201d album \u2014 two years ago, telling BBC radio:<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember Julian and I both doing pictures on a double-sided easel, throwing paint at each other, much to the horror of the classroom attendant\u2026 Julian had painted a picture and on that particular day his father turned up with the chauffeur to pick him up from school.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lucy Vodden (n\u00e9e O\u2019Donnell), who was the inspiration for the Beatles\u2019 song \u201cLucy in the Sky with Diamonds,\u201d has died, following a long battle with the autoimmune disease lupus. The British housewife \u2014 whose passing was announced by the St Thomas\u2019 Lupus Trust charity \u2014 was 46. Vodden first achieved pop culture fame as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}