"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 with assistance from
Cover of the American sheet music for the song
Cashbox advertisement, 30 November 1974
Lucy (hominid)
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AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40% of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensi
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
…Lennon mentioned "Lucy in the Sky" in the Beatles' song "I Am the Walrus", a song that was admittedly inspired by LSD. A 3.2-million-year-old, 40% complete fossil skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis specimen, discovered in 1974 by Donald Johanson, Yves Coppens, Maurice Taieb and Tom Gray, was named "Lucy" because…
Reconstruction of the fossil skeleton of "Lucy" the Australopithecus afarensis
Side view of cast of Lucy in the Naturmuseum Senckenberg
An exact replica of Lucy at the National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The original is kept in a safe vault at that museum.
Cast of Lucy at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City