"You must get this a lot, but who's Lucy?"

----Lucy was a classmate of Julian Lennon and the subject of Julian's painting, "Lucy in the sky with diamonds," which inspired his father John to write the song of the same name.

Four year old Lucy Richardson was about a year older than Julian when he enrolled at the private Heath House School in Weybridge, Surrey. John Lennon and the other Beatles visited her family's antique and jewellery shop now and then, so the family knew Julian. When the little boy became homesick or unsettled at school, Lucy would be called out of class to sit with him while he drew pictures.

In 2005, her sister Mary Foster said, "One day John Lennon came into the shop and said, 'Hello, Lucy in the sky with diamonds.' We thought it was just John being John." When the song appeared on Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Richardsons noticed the name but weren't sure of any connection until 1975, when Lennon told an interviewer the story of his son's picture.

Richardson went on to work in the film industry and is credited as art director on films such as Elizabeth, Chocolat and The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. She never married. In 2003, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. After gruelling therapy the cancer reportedly spread to her bones, and she died on 1 June 2005.

When she was buried in Weybridge her family sprinkled crystals on the grave, symbolizing the song's title.