What band talks about "the girl with the kaleidoscope eyes"?

The Beatles talk about “the girl with the kaleidoscope eyes” in their 1967 song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” The track appears on the album *Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band* and was written primarily by John Lennon, with contributions from Paul McCartney.

The song’s dreamlike lyrics describe a surreal world of tangerine trees, rocking-horse people, newspaper taxis and marmalade skies. The “Lucy” behind the song was Lucy O’Donnell, a classmate of Lennon’s son Julian. Julian showed his father a drawing and described it as “Lucy—in the sky with diamonds,” giving Lennon the song’s central image and title.

A common mix-up concerns the title’s initials: “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” spells LSD. That led many listeners to assume the song was deliberately about the psychedelic drug. Lennon repeatedly denied that this was the title’s intended origin, although the song’s psychedelic sound and fantastical imagery helped cement that interpretation. The Beatles recorded it in early 1967, and it became one of the defining psychedelic songs of the era.