London, April 27 : John Lennon's signature look with grandpa-style spectacles happened by accident, a Spanish Beatles researcher has claimed.

According to expert Adolfo Iglesias, the Beatle adopted the image during his six-week stay in the city of Almeria, Spain in 1966.

Iglesias said the singer stumbled upon the image when he was hired to star as Private Gripweed in the movie How I Won The War.

London, Apr 21: Late Beatles member John Lennon is said to have been a very talented footballer, with dreams of playing for English football club Liverpool.

Pete Best, 67, who was the band's original drummer before being replaced by Ringo Starr in 1962, revealed how Lennon always had a ball at his feet before the band rose to fame, and how they used to have a kickabout.

"John had the best skills in the band. He could play a little bit, to be fair," the Daily Star quoted him as saying.

London, March 26 : John Lennon’s half-sister Julia Baird, 62, and the makers of a new biopic on the late Beatle’s childhood face possible legal action from American author Geoffrey Giuliano.

The writer has penned several books on the Fab Four, apart from collaborating with Julia for the biography ‘John Lennon, My Brother’, published in the late Eighties.

London, Mar 5: New photographs of ‘The Beatles’ and ‘The Rolling Stones’, which were clicked during the 1960s, have been discovered.

One of the pictures shows late Beatles member John Lennon taking a backstage cigarette break.

There is also one photograph showing Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards cutting Charlie Watts'' hair, and one featuring Mick Jagger relaxing in front of the TV.

The photos, which have never been seen before, were clicked while the two bands toured America during the 1960s.

New York, February 28: Just seven months before John Lennon was shot dead, he had reportedly complained about the lack of security at his Dakota apartment.

The complaint was made through a handwritten note, which is selling for 54,000 dollars at mementsintime. com.

Lennon wrote the memo to his aide Fred Seaman on 28 April 1980.

Washington, Feb 27 : Late `Beatle' star John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono will be honoured for her contribution to the art world at this year''s prestigious Venice Biennale event in Italy.

Ono, 76, and John Baldessari will be presented with a Golden Lion at the contemporary art exhibition, which runs from June 7 to November 22.

"The pair's ground-breaking activities have opened new poetic, conceptual and social possibilities for artists around the globe," Contactmusic quoted the show's curator, Daniel Birnbaum, as saying.