Lennon later tipped his hat to author Lewis Carroll for inspiring the lyrics. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes Lennon gave Lucy a story and animated her in a fantastical, whimsical story. Inspired by his son, Lennon got to work creating a sonic picture of his son’s drawing. And when he showed his father the picture after school, he told the elder Lennon that it was “Lucy in the sky with diamonds.” Julian had drawn one of his schoolmates and friends, Lucy O’Donnell, among a smattering of stars. Lennon repeatedly expressed that this song was about a drawing that his young son, Julian, created while in school. Thus the meaning of this song is rather abstract, but Lennon was adamant about the meaning of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” during his life. With tangerine trees and marmalade skies/ Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly/ A girl with kaleidoscope eyes. (Shoutout to the Lowery organ and Indian tambura for helping the soundscape come together.) Picture yourself in a boat on a river, Lennon sings to begin the song.
I don’t think it’s making too much of it to say Bill Frisell has no peer when it comes to his stylistic fluidity, something that has attracted artists from across genres to him.īill thinks about and approaches music with an open mind and a sense that every note is a question in an ongoing conversation with his fellow musicians.The lyrics of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” are about as hazy as the song’s psychedelic sounds.
It also gave gravitas to Costello, but it blew the doors off my own perceptions of Bill as an artist within the confines of jazz.
Hearing Bill’s supportive guitar work – his dynamic combination of restrained phrasing and full chording – and novel voicings gave new life to familiar songs.
Unlike those other records, Deep Dead Blue featured just two instruments: Elvis’s voice and Bill’s guitar. I was impressed that a musician I so identified with the world of jazz was working with an artist who, as of 1995, was still seen as something of a musical magpie, whose short-lived flirtations included country, Americana and classical string quartet.īill’s work with Elvis represented something new.
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