Jitterbugging for Jesus

Sad story today for those who get what “Strawberry Fields Forever” is about:
Lucy, the little girl who was immortalized by John Lennon in the “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” classic after Lennon observed her and his son Julian at a birthday party for Julian, is now 40-something and dying.
The song from Sgt. Pepper was “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” one the many great of great John Lennon songs.
People at the time were always trying to find secret “drug” messages and all kinds of weirdness in Beatles songs in those days. Remember when Paul was dead and you played albums backwards and the Beatles were secretly winking sublime messages about Paul having died in a wreck and replaced in the band by a Paul double?
Beatles music has never been allowed to be just great music without all the desperate attempts to find subversive or bizarre signals from the Fab 4.
But of course, the Beatles loved all the weirdness of those interpretations of their music, and what musician wouldn’t want to have that kind of frenzied reaction to the music around the world?
Having said all this, Beatles music in their “psychadelic” days was so incredibly mysterious and weird and wonderful and yes, often drug inspired, that it’s easy to understand why we were playing Sgt. Pepper BACKWARDS to hear for ourselves the message that “Paul is dead.”
I remember being huddled around the, uh, HiFi stereo, with a group of my peers trying to hear it said that Paul was dead and checking out all the other clues in the Paul is dead hoax. Or whatever it was.
I actually heard it myself as we played the classic rock album backerds!
“Paul is dead; Paul is dead.”
The power of suggestion is such that you can hear or see or smell anything once somebody has told you what you’ll see, hear or smell or taste or anything else involving the senses.
Lennon and the Beatles always denied that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was about LSD or an acid trip, because it truly was about the little birthday girl Lucy at Julian’s childhood birthday party.
BTW, I’ve never been all that much about Elton John, although I do like a lot of his music and would love to see him live someday before he drops of old age (or I do first!) , but the Rocket Man’s version of “Lucy in the Sky” is one of my favorite rock songs of all time and I’ll take it over the Beatles original Lucy on Pepper.
That’s a mouthful to say since I never get tired of hearing the Sgt. Pepper music, although it’s not something I care to play anymore, very much, for my own entertainment. It’s just nice to have the CD version when I want to hear it, but I could say the same about a lot of rock music faves of mine. as well as all kinds of music other than rock
The now ill and dying Lucy tells the media she’s heard from Julian Lennon and that he’s promised to take care of her.
Love, love, love is all you need, but as for me and my faith, love is God and God is love and at the end of the day, God, God, God is all you need.