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John Lennon had poor eyesight, detected at an early age, and was prescribed spectacles early on. Without them, he was legally blind.

Lennon hated the National Health owl-eyed look as a child, and went without his glasses whenever possible, sometimes leading to trouble when he got outside his neighborhood. (Boyhood friend Peter Shotton remembered Lennon climbing posts to read street signs up close.)

In his teens, Lennon wore Buddy Holly-style framed glasses; slightly expensive, but he refused to wear glasses otherwise. He experimented with hard-glass contact lenses during Beatlemania (suggested by then-Roy Orbison guitarist Bobby Goldsboro); being hit in the face and eyes with jellybeans ended that.

During the filming of How I Won the War in 1966, Lennon wore the same glasses he'd hated as a child. This time he embraced them, and set off a new popularity for the style. He softened the style in the early 1970s, and gave it up for "normal plastic blue frames" later in the decade.

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