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Subject: Re: My text for analysis

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Ronaldo

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Date Posted: 04:57:05 09/30/09 Wed
In reply to: Shantal 's message, "My text for analysis" on 19:23:36 09/29/09 Tue

Hi Shantal,

I'll work with your text.

thanks,
Ronaldo

>

>'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' dies
>updated 9:57 a.m. EDT, Tue September 29, 2009
>
>LONDON, England (CNN) -- The childhood friend of John
>Lennon's son who inspired the Beatles' psychedelic
>masterpiece "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" has died
>aged 46 from the chronic disease Lupus.
>Julian Lennon showed his father a drawing he had done
>of Lucy Vodden. The rest is music history...
>Lucy Vodden was a classmate of Julian Lennon, who came
>home from school one day carrying a drawing of his
>4-year-old classmate. "That's Lucy in the sky with
>diamonds," he told his father.
>Lennon seized on the image and embellished it in a
>song along with "newspaper taxis" and a "girl with
>kaleidoscope eyes."
>The BBC later banned the track, which appeared on the
>1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,"
>for its supposed drug reference with the words of the
>song spelling out LSD.
>Lennon always claimed though that the title was
>suggested by Julian, not from any wish to spell out
>LSD, the chemical name for the drug, acid, in code.
>Julian Lennon lost touch with Vodden when he left
>Heath House nursery school, near his parents' home in
>Surrey following their divorce in 1968. But they were
>reunited in recent years when he heard she was
>suffering from the immune system disease and he lent
>his support to her.
>Vodden's death was announced on Monday by St. Thomas
>Lupus Trust in London, where she had been treated for
>more than five years.
>"Julian and (his mother) Cynthia are shocked and
>saddened by the loss of Lucy and their thoughts are
>with her husband and family today and always," the
>trust said on its Web site.
>Angie Davidson, Campaign Director of the St. Thomas'
>Lupus Trust said "everyone at the Louise Coote Lupus
>Unit was dreadfully shocked by the death of Lucy, she
>was a great supporter of ours and a real fighter, it's
>so sad that she has finally lost the battle she fought
>so bravely for so long."
>Vodden, who was a housewife from Surbiton, southwest
>of London, cherished her link to the Beatles, but did
>not especially like the song she inspired.
>"I don't relate to the song, to that type of song,"
>she told The Associated Press in June, according to
>the Web site, PopEater.
>"As a teenager, I made the mistake of telling a couple
>of friends at school that I was the Lucy in the song
>and they said, 'No, it's not you, my parents said it's
>about drugs.' And I didn't know what LSD was at the
>time, so I just kept it quiet, to myself."
>
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