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Originally Posted by bert_mcgirt
Heh, funny, I just read this earlier today:
In an interview published in this month's Uncut, Sir Paul admitted drugs "informed" much of the Beatles' music. He said the song Got To Get You Into My Life was "about pot - although everyone missed it at the time", and Day Tripper was "about acid".
He added it was "pretty obvious" that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was inspired by LSD, and other songs made "subtle hints" about narcotics
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3769511.stm
I know Lennon says it was really about his son's drawing, but the acronym is just too obvious, especially when written by the same person who said "[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time."
sorry for threadjacking but I'm currently doing a research project on the Beatles and came across that earlier 
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I don't care how obvious the acronym is, YES you'd have to be a fool to not notice the acronym, but it's irrelivant.
It's not like I just found this out by reading Wikipedia, it's just a fact that's been known by many people for a long time.
If ANYTHING, it's John's Word against Paul, and frankly I'd take John's any day. And Julian also personally has spoken of the incident, remembering the whole day almost for interviewers, etc.
Maybe some of the odd lyrics were indeed inspired by acid, but the song in no way is ABOUT acid and the name acronym is a total coincidence, unless little Julian thought of it himself.
Day Tripper is a little more obvious. But the majority of songs contributed to
[without any proof]drugs or contributed to anything by popular belief really are quite often totally wrong...
Anyway, enough of that on this thread, it's about Purple Haze. So where the purp at?