The Black Crowes

Released: January 8, 2002

Songwriter: John Lennon Paul McCartney

Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds, ah

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
That grow so incredibly high

Newspaper taxies appear on the shores
Waiting to take you away
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
And you're gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds, ah

Picture yourself in a train in a station
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds, ah
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds, ah

One of the most successful and acclaimed bands to come out of the 90’s jam band movement, The Black Crowes had a much more blues-influenced sound than contemporaries like Dave Matthews or Phish. The Crowes were led by brothers Rich and Chris Robinson, and featured a rotating cast of other musicians over the years. They are best known to mainstream audiences for hits like “She Talks to Angels”, “Remedy”, “Jealous Again”, and a cover of Otis Redding’s “Hard To Handle”.

In 2002, the band went on a hiatus while the Robinsons took time on their solo careers. Chris released two solo albums in this time, New Earth Mud, and This Magnificent Distance, and Rich put out one, entitled Paper. In 2005, The Crowes reformed, but with some lineup changes which would continue for the next few years. The band went on another, shorter hiatus in 2011. This time, Chris and keyboardist Adam MacDougall formed a band called the Chris Robinson Brotherhood along with Ryan Adams & the Cardinals guitarist Neal Casal. They reformed after this hiatus, but broke up for good in 2015. Rich continues to tour with solo projects, and Chris is still going with the Brotherhood.

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