The lyric sheet for The Beatles 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' has been sold at auction.
Written by John Lennon, the lyrics were sold for £145,700 at an auction house in Los Angeles.
The songsheet features the opening lyrics to the song as well as a sketch of four people in a room draped in curtains.
The song has always been linked to the hallucinogenic drug LSD and was taken from the band's critically-acclaimed 1967 album, 'Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band'.
Musicians Influenced By The Beatles
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Oasis - Arguably the band most indebted to the Fab Four, Oasis’s Lennon influences run from their music to their stage set-up (former drummer Zac Starkey is the son of The Beatles’ Ringo Star). In a recent interview, Noel Gallagher said the Liverpool band influenced “more now than when I was a kid”.
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