Round wire frames with a saddle bridge and temples that slide behind the ears: John Lennon’s iconic glasses look has become a trademark even after his death. But the Beatle was never a fan of glasses. Why contact lenses were still not an option for him and what role cannabis played in that – Krone+ reveals.
Before 1967, Lennon was rarely seen wearing glasses in public. His aversion to spectacles began in his youth when, like his mother, he was diagnosed with nearsightedness at around age seven. “The trouble with John was he was as blind as a bat – he had glasses but he never wore them. He was very vain about it,” Nigel Walley, John’s childhood friend and manager of John’s first band, the Quarrymen, who later became the Beatles, once recalled on the BBC.
Source: Krone
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