# Myths that form about songs and bands / band members

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [February 11, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/myths-that-form-about-songs-and-bands-band-members/1014173 "2025-02-11T16:37:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/myths-that-form-about-songs-and-bands-band-members/1014173/144 "2025-03-09T05:11:12Z")

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> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#):
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> Yeah, you’re the prime example of this. You just glossed right over a list of reasoned arguments

The arguments are that “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” has LSD in the title, but it actually is LITSWD. And that Lennon was lying for no good reasons. And i am not the only one- most posters here agree it is not about drugs.

Wikipedia disagrees.

This cite disagrees-

> **[Music Review: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds](https://www.acep.org/toxicology/venomous-media-reviews/music-review-lucy-in-the-sky-with-diamonds)**
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> The American College of Emergency Physicians promotes the highest quality of emergency care and is the leading advocate for emergency physicians, their patients, and the public.

as does this

> **['Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' not about LSD, said Lennon](https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/lennon-explains-lucy-song-not-about-lsd/)**
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> John Lennon, in an interview with Dick Cavett, explained that the 'Sgt. Pepper' track 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' was not written about LSD

and finally Snopes

> **[Is 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' Code for LSD?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lucy-in-the-sky-with-diamonds/)**
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> It wasn't long before listeners discovered the "hidden" pun in the song's title, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." The initial letters of certain words spelled out the acrostic LSD.

and yes, Lennon and the crew could be coy and joke around, _but Lennon was interviewed many times about the song and steadfastly, every single time denied it was about drugs-_ while cheerfully admitting other songs were.

> [@JacobSwan](#):
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> I was a ‘host’ at a Soho jazz club about a dozen years ago to help a friends business. If a punter wanted to buy me a drink they would pay for a double rum and coke, but I’d just get the coke. So it’s an old scam that still has plenty of mileage. (And it’s not just the girls that do it.)

Thank you.

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