"Lucy" is a song written and performed by

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, James Scott Cook and Todd Meagher. The song is a quasi-follow-up to

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' "

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album '' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band''. It was written primarily by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partners ...

", originally inspired by a drawing by a then four-year-old Lennon given to his

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. The drawing was inspired by Lucy Vodden, a child friend of Lennon, and this song is dedicated to her.

Cover art

Lennon and Cook appeared on

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'' on 16 December 2009 to debut the song. In the interview with co-anchor Harry Smith, Lennon revealed his original drawing depicting Lucy "got lost. So how it was found or who may have taken it, I have no idea, but it's now been re-found and

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from

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has it and kindly allowed us to use a copy of it for the art work" for "Lucy.""

Charity

Lennon contacted his childhood friend Lucy later in life, and learned she had contracted the auto-immune disease

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which she eventually died from. A portion of the proceeds from sales of the song and the EP release went to two lupus charities, St. Thomas' Lupus Trust (www.lupus.org.uk) in the

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and the

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Track listing

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