<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Audio sample </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Ul> <Li> file </Li> <Li> help </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> file </Li> <Li> help </Li> </Ul> <P> "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is a song credited to Lennon--McCartney that appears on the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt . Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band . It was started by John Lennon, then Paul McCartney contributed to it in a songwriting session . Lennon's son Julian inspired the song with a nursery school drawing he called "Lucy--in the sky with diamonds". Shortly after the song's release, speculation arose that the first letter of each of the title nouns intentionally spelled "LSD". Lennon consistently denied this, insisting the song's fantastical imagery was inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books, a claim repeatedly confirmed by Paul McCartney . </P>

On lucy in the sky with diamonds john lennon wrote the lyrics but paul mccartney wrote