<P> It was Alice in the boat . She is buying an egg and it turns into Humpty - Dumpty . The woman serving in the shop turns into a sheep and the next minute they are rowing in a rowing boat somewhere and I was visualizing that . </P> <P> McCartney remembered of the song's composition, "We did the whole thing like an Alice In Wonderland idea, being in a boat on the river...Every so often it broke off and you saw Lucy in the sky with diamonds all over the sky . This Lucy was God, the Big Figure, the White Rabbit ." He later recalled helping Lennon finish the song at Lennon's Kenwood home, specifically claiming he contributed the "newspaper taxis" and "cellophane flowers" lyrics; Lennon's 1968 interview with Rolling Stone magazine confirmed McCartney's contribution . </P> <P> Lennon's original handwritten lyrics sold at auction in 2011 for $230,000 . </P> <P> Rolling Stone magazine described the song as "Lennon's lavish daydream" and music critic Richie Unterberger said "' Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' was one of the best songs on the Beatles' famous Sgt . Pepper album, and one of the classic songs of psychedelia as a whole . There are few other songs that so successfully evoke a dream world, in both the sonic textures and words ." In a review for the BBC, Chris Jones described the track as "nursery rhyme surrealism" that contributed to Sgt . Pepper's "revolutionary...sonic carpet that enveloped the ears and sent the listener spinning into other realms ." Hilary Saunders of Paste called the song "a perfectly indulgent introduction to psych - rock". </P>

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