THERE’S NO QUESTIONING the importance of covering the passing of Ronald Reagan–a man whose impact on America and the world was profound. Plus it’s been more than 30 years since the capital has seen a presidential funeral. But such historic moments have a habit of overshadowing news that, under lesser circumstances, would have garnered more attention. How unfortunate, for example, for the intellectual and literary giants C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley, who both happened to die on November 22, 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Or how fortunate (at least for a few days) for Ted Kennedy that his accident at Chappaquiddick took place on the same weekend as the moon landing in July of 1969.
And so it is that as the world mourns the death of the Great Communicator, little notice will have been paid to otherwise earth-shattering news out of England: In an interview with Uncut magazine, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney has finally admitted that “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” really was about LSD.
