Paul McCartney’s hysterical story of when John Lennon refused to put on glasses

John Lennon was famously shortsighted and within the early days of The Beatles didn’t put on his glasses in public out of self-importance.

Sir Paul McCartney took images of his collaborator in personal, a few of that are on show at his new images exhibition on the National Portrait Gallery, which opened at this time in London.

During a dialog about one in every of these snaps with Conan O’Brien at a stay recording of the comic’s podcast, the 81-year-old shared a hilarious story of 1 time Lennon refused to put on his specs.

The story happened again in Liverpool when Lennon and McCartney would meet up at one another’s homes to write down songs collectively.

Macca recalled: “John was really shortsighted and he used to come down from his house which was a mile or two away from where I lived and we would write songs and have a little session.”

McCartney shared: “On this occasion it was Christmas. So John, after we’d finished, he would walk back in the dark to his place.

“I knew the route he took, it was a place called Booker Avenue and on the corner was this little posh bungalow.

“So he walks home and the next day he said, ‘You know that house on the corner of Booker Avenue? Those people are crazy.’”

Macca requested Lennon why he thought they had been loopy and he replied: “They were out on the veranda playing cards at midnight, I don’t get it!”

McCartney continued: “So I went up and looked and it was the manager, it was the baby Jesus! He wasn’t going to put his glasses on.”

It seems the late Beatle hilariously mistook a nativity scene for the individuals who lived there.