Songs about Girls

In 1967, Lucy O’Donnell was a little girl of four years of age who attended the same kindergarten his friend Julian. One day, she made a drawing and coloring that Julian took it home and show his father commented: “This is Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” John Lennon, Julian’s father, was impressed and immediately associated with what he saw and heard the works “Alice in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” by Lewis Carroll. From there, he and Paul McCartney began writing what would be one of the most famous songs of the Beatles “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”

Like Lucy O’Donnell, real and imagined other girls have been immortalized in some of the best songs composed young since the 1950s. The lucky Peggy Sue, for example, was the muse of two famous songs of Buddy Holly. The first written when he still had hopes of winning her the second – “Peggy Sue Got Married” – when he knew she had married another.