Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds was a real person and she just died

It is so tragic when it takes a death for society to realize that someone was telling the plain truth about something for so long, and it was not believed for a whole lifetime.

But that is exactly what happened with Lucy Vodden.

She was a preschool classmate of Julian Lennon.

One day, as his father John Lennon repeatedly said, Julian brought home a picture he had drawn at school of his classmate, Lucy Vodden.

When his father asked, as all parents do of their child's first drawings, what it was of - Julian proudly exclaimed that it was Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

No one, from the BBC to her future classmates believed she was the subject of the song. Neither she nor the author of the song was believed when they said that was the case.

Lucy Vodden has died of Lupus, it was announced yesterday by the clinic where she was being treated.

She was 4 when she was Julian's classmate and through his painting, inspired the song. She was 46 this month when she died. A long time to go without people believing you. Her whole life, basically.