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Sandra Quayle, a curator at the
Beatles Museum in Liverpool, England, holds the spectacles that belonged to the late
Beatle, John Lennon.
Lennon's glasses, said to be worth
over a million pounds, were bought at auction and given to the museum by an anonymous
donor. They form part of a new section that will be opened to the public soon.
The specs are the ones John lennon
wore during the 1970s. They are tinted orange because orange is the colour for inspiration
in Feng Shui, and John was in to that.
Surrounding the specs are video
screens displaying world events from the 1970s right up to the time of John’s murder
– the idea is that these are the scenes John would have seen through those specs, and
these are the events he witnessed.
The specs have been tested and
proven to be genuine – scientists checked the prescription lenses and were surprised
at how poor John’s eyesight must have been to need lenses so thick.
July 16th 2002
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