Many extraordinary items were auctioned that night for charity, and one such treasure was a pair of round metal glasses that John Lennon had once owned. Alexander Bitar, a collector and dealer ...

A pair of round spectacles worn by Beatles legend John Lennon were due to be unveiled ... became part of his trademark image. The glasses, which Lennon wore when he wrote the album Imagine ...

There he was, on Page 3 of the February 1975 issue (Volume 4, No. 3): John Lennon, peering out from a grainy black-and-white photo in his cap and wire-rimmed glasses. “Beatlemania returned to ...