10 Perfect Rock Songs That Were INSANELY Controversial

10. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles

For all of the controversial songs that come and go in rock music, how the hell did the Beatles manage to find themselves onto a list like this? While they might not have been the most wholesome people behind the scenes, this was the kind of happy go lucky boy band that made rock and roll okay for people to listen to. That was before they started dropping acid, and the media got a little too worried when the age of psychedelia started on Sgt. Pepper.

Being one of the few albums by the Beatles without any mainstream singles on it, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds is one of the trippiest experiences that the band had ever released, as John Lennon weaves together images that feel like they're ripped out of Alice in Wonderland. That didn't stop the people looking for problems, and they sure got one when someone pointed out that the main words in the title spelled out LSD.

In this case though, most of the media had their minds in the gutter, as John had taken inspiration from a drawing that his son Julian had made in school about one of his classmates named Lucy. That wasn't a good enough explanation apparently, with most radio stations refusing to play it for fear that it would lead to kids dropping acid. John can offer as many defenses as he wants (and they might even be true), but the kind of music that the Beatles were making definitely suggested some chemical enhancements going on outside the studio walls.