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The song that is infamous for its supposed drug references is "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". The song comes from the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The title of the song, which the nouns first letters make out 'LSD', is credited to Lennon's son Julian. Julian brought back a nursery school drawing he had called "Lucy-In the sky with diamonds. Another thing Lennon and even McCartney denied was that the song was somehow inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books. The Beatles have always refuted claims that LSD altered their music in anyway except for in an interview with Uncut magazine in 2004. In the interview McCartney confirmed drugs did influence some of the group's compositions, including "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," he slightly retracted in by saying that "It's easy to overestimate the influence of drugs on the Beatles music." .
The Beatles increasingly tapped into the LSD counterculture of 1966, and the first song recorded for Revolver was the psychedelic Tomorrow Never Knows, featured lyrics adapted from Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert's 1964 book The Psychedelic Experience, itself a modern reworking of the ancient Tibetan Book of the Dead. The song according to George is about meditation, a task associated with LSD. The goal of meditation is to go beyond or transcend from your normal state. The song's lyrics start out with "Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream, it is not dying. Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void- it is shining. That you may see the meaning of within- it is being." These lyrics are commands to try meditation or experiment with LSD. .
The Impact of LSD just didn't affect The Beatles music it also changed their public image. When Paul first announced that The Beatles used drugs their public image of the squeaky clean boys who sang songs about love quickly vanished.