The girl who inspired the famous Beatle’s song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds has passed away at the tender age of 46. Lucy Vodden was battling lupus, an incurable disease of the immune system.

Julian Lennon has said that the track was inspired by a picture he drew of classmate Lucy O’Donnell with star-like shapes when they were at nursery school in the mid-1960s.

The young Julian showed his father the picture and told him it was ‘Lucy in the sky with diamonds’.

Lennon used the phrase as a title for a song he wrote for the album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, released in 1967

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Julian showed acts of kindness to Lucy in the days leading to her death, sending her a hand-written card as well as coupons for the garden centre (he’s not cheap, it’s just that she loves her plants).

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Rest in peace, Lucy. You’re with diamonds in the sky now.