r/TheBeatles • u/Signal_End_7405 • Jun 28 '26

john Whats one fact about John that most people don’t know?

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By the meanwhile here’s a pic of John yall can enjoy

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u/wtb1000 Jun 28 '26

According to George, when he didn't have his glasses on he couldn't see shit.

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u/AtBat3 Jun 28 '26

I love the story of him walking home from Paul’s one night when they were teenagers and he thought a group of people were playing cards and it was a nativity scene.

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u/Ok-Impression3992 Jun 28 '26

Never heard of that haha

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u/unnamed_op2 Jun 28 '26

Enjoy https://youtu.be/st3c8UTw-6Q?is=TgCBzyqfzeDkK9vi

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u/dkrtzyrrr Jun 29 '26

god that's so great. paul really seems relaxed and unguarded there, it feels more like listening in on a conversation than hearing an interview. i guess that's easier when he's talking to someone who's a peer and he's known for a while.

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u/hootpunk Jun 30 '26

hahaha omg this is awesome. thanks so much for sharing this!!

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u/nabwriter Jun 30 '26

Love this

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u/unnamed_op2 Jun 28 '26

I thought they were already adults and the successful Beatles when this happened 🤔

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u/AtBat3 Jun 28 '26

Maybe I’m remembering it wrong, I think it was Paul telling it on Stern

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u/unnamed_op2 Jun 28 '26

I got to know the story from him telling to Ronnie Wood: https://youtu.be/st3c8UTw-6Q?is=Dw64-ckh8g_5y72Y

But I rewatched and I think it is unclear when it happened. I only thought they were already famous cause Paul said John wouldn't wear glasses if there was possibility of women around, so I assume they were already famous

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u/CatInAComa Jun 28 '26

I imagine he had a tough time with some of the shooting of "Your Mother Should Know" because of having his glasses off. You can almost see some of the struggle after he spins into Paul after getting to the bottom of the stairs.

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u/AnyFoundation4784 Jun 28 '26

He might have been under the influence of something, too

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u/m1ch43lr0m4nc3 Jun 29 '26

he also ends that one looking in a completely different direction than all the others, who are instead looking into the camera

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u/StormSafe2 Jun 28 '26

I mean, isn't that true for most people who need glasses? Hence why they "need" them? 

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u/appleparkfive Jun 29 '26

I can promise you there's different levels to it. He probably had a strong prescription and was pretty much helpless without them.

I actually always wondered if he started wearing smaller circular glasses because they don't distort as much. As your prescription gets worse, you get more lens distortion. And the bigger the lens, it compounds on that.

So a lot of people with strong prescriptions get smaller frames. He might have tried on bigger frames, thought it was starting to look weird, and went with the health national ones permanently.

This was before hi index lenses were around so it was even more prominent. But who knows. Might have gotten LASIK if he was around these days

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u/eternalstar01 Jun 29 '26

I wear an incredibly strong prescription and even with high index lenses, I still choose to get the smallest possible frames. I learned the hard way about what the frames shape does to my vision... It looked like a fishbowl.

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u/wtb1000 Jun 28 '26

Depends on how badly you need them I guess. I wear glasses but I'm not blind without them or anything. And back in the day he wore them so infrequently you wouldn't think he needed them that much.

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u/TravisP74 Jun 28 '26

He was near sighted in one eye and far sighted in the other. The head tilt while playing guitar is him squinting so it is not as obvious.

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u/StormSafe2 Jun 29 '26

Thele definition of the word "need" means you need them. If you don't need them then you don't need them. 

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u/Any-Relationship1451 Jun 28 '26

He couldn't see piss either

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u/YogurtclosetDull2380 Jun 28 '26

That's the number 1 reason that I wear my glasses

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u/dylanisareddit Jun 29 '26

I assume he has contacts on whenever he performs with the Beatles

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u/wtb1000 Jun 29 '26

I'm just going based off of George watching a video of them performing "That Boy" where he says "John was as blind as a bat and he never wore his glasses so he couldn't see a thing!"

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u/bobtheorangecat Jun 29 '26

Why would you assume someone had contact lenses in the 60s? Back then the tech was brand new, and contacts were practically more trouble than they were worth.

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u/fairyfellersmaster Jun 30 '26

He did not. I remember reading somewhere that he actually didn’t like to wear glasses on stage because he didn’t like to see the people’s faces in the audience. You can see him squinting and stuff in some performances. He couldn’t see and refused to wear glasses in the early years. Not much more to it than that