Diamonds

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In June 2023, the British Phonographic Industry certified Diamonds quadruple Platinum for sales of 1,200,000 units.

Strangely, on an entire album influenced by the band's mind-expanding experimentation, it was just the final track, "A Day in the Life", that came under the BBC's moral microscope . The B-side of the single was also a John Lennon composition, "One Day (At a Time)", from Lennon's 1973 album Mind Games.I suppose it can be a bit nostalgic because the songs sound like they did when I first heard them through the tinny speakers in my parent's 1964 Chrysler Newport station wagon. Available at Rock's Backpages Archived 15 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine (subscription required). Rumours of the connection between the title of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and the initialism " LSD" began circulating shortly after the release of the Sgt.

A new Elton Johngreatest hits collection Diamonds will be issued in November, with a limited box set also available. No midrange punch, or true instrument separation, it’s actually fairly one dimensional and clearly compressed, however there is a decent soundstage. In 2013, Dave Swanson of Ultimate Classic Rock ranked "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" fourth on his list of the "Top 10 Beatles Psychedelic Songs" saying that, despite Lennon's insistence about the inspiration for its title, the track is "Three-and-a-half minutes of pure lysergic bliss, full of picturesque and surreal lyrics set to one of the Beatles' most trippy songs. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Quite shameful really, but these 'signed' promotions are far too tempting for some artists not to get involved with.Among other sources, the claim has been recited in The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature. Lennon promised to appear live with Elton at Madison Square Garden if "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night" became a number-one single.

Adding to the song's ethereal qualities, the musical arrangement includes a Lowrey organ part heavily treated with studio effects, and a drone provided by an Indian tambura. The limited edition 3-CD box set version of Diamonds includes a 72-page hardback book with annotations for the stories behind each track and a set of five postcards of illustrations of Elton John by contemporary artist Richard Kilroy. In the United States the Recording Industry Association of America certified Diamonds Platinum for sales of 1,000,000 units. According to Lennon, the lyrics were largely derived from the literary style of Lewis Carroll's novel Alice in Wonderland.The two-CD set (34 tracks) comes in standard jewel case packaging with a 16-page booklet while the 180g double vinyl package comes with printed inner sleeves and a download code. The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship consulted with the BBC's surviving internal correspondence and memos from 1967, and mentioned no ban on any Sgt.