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John Lennon

Snopes rated the claim “John Lennon deliberately chose the song title Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds because the initial letters of key words form the acrostic "LSD".” False.

Shown as reported and rated by a fact checker, not as an established fact.

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Captured 2026-08-15 from Snopes. The archived copy is preserved so this citation survives link rot.

John Lennon · 1998