| | Time marches on. Jeopardy had a category called "Real People in Beatles' Lyrics". I knew that I would know all the answers when I heard the categories. But the contestants could only get one out of five right. And the contestants didn't seem THAT young that they wouldn't have heard any Beatles songs, they looked to be about 30 plus or minus 5 years.
One clue was "In 'I am the Walrus', you should have seen them kicking 'this American author'"
Another one was "In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass, and in his pocket is a portrait of this lady"
One clue gave about three lines from the song "The Ballad of John and Yoko", and of course the answer was "Who are John and Yoko?"
One clue that was more history than song referred to "The Taxman", and named two past prime ministers by name, and the question was what was their job.
They were old enough to be Jeopardy contestants, yet so young that they had no idea about Beatles lyrics.
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LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS DEAD FROM LUPUS AT AGE 46 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1216660/Lucy-In-The-Sky-With-Diamonds-Lucy-ODonnell-inspiration-dies-battling-disease.html As much as the world, myself included, thought that "Lucy in the Skies with Diamonds" was about an LSD trip, something John always denied, it turns out the song actually did have NOTHING TO DO with LSD.
John's elder son Julian, (from his first wife Cynthia), drew a picture of a girl he was fond of at nursery school, called it "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", and John took the name and the picture, and wrote the song. John was that talented. And here is the picture where John saw a boat on the river with tangerine trees, marmalade skies, cellophane flowers of yellow and green, rocking horse people who eat marshmallow pies, and the girl with colitis goes by (actually "girl with kaleidoscope eyes").
As mentioned in my headline, the real Lucy O'Donnell, aged 4 when Julian drew the picture has just died from Lupus. Julian, upon hearing that Lucy was quite ill contacted her a few times in the last six months of her life. |
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