Want to know when John Lennon started wearing those trademark round-rimmed glasses? Well, it all began with the character he played in the 1967 black comedy film How I Won the War, directed by Richard Lester. After the movie, he wore that style of spectacles for the rest of his life.
How I Won the War
, an absurdist anti-war satire set in the thick of World War II, was also the first and only movie Lennon was in that wasn’t specifically a Beatles-related film, being done just after the band stopped touring. By many accounts, his impersonation of soldier Muskateer Gripweed, a witty and glib fascist thief, stole the show.
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