Sir Elton John is rarely seen without a pair of glasses on, and throughout his music career – which has spanned six decades – he’s amassed a huge collection. Here are some of our favourites.

 Sir Elton John, the legendary singer-songwriter, who recently turned 75, doesn’t have an iPod or a mobile phone or a computer. He does have a quarter of a million pairs of glasses though.

Here are Sir Elton’s best specs moments…

1>> STARS IN THEIR EYES

­The singer-songwriter scored a string of hit albums and singles in the Seventies. He sported these starshaped glasses in 1974, the same year he released the original version of Candle in the Wind.

2>> SEVENTIES SUNNIES

Meeting the Queen in 1977, the pop star accessorised his checkerboard lapel suit with a pair of oversized round sunglasses.

3>> COWBOY COOL

Pictured at Heathrow Airport in 1982, the pop star chose huge wraparound sunnies to go with his leather jacket, cowboy hat and Watford FC bag.

4>> SMALL CHANGE

In the Nineties, John ditched his signature oversized specs and started wearing much smaller styles, like these diamond shaped frames he is seen wearing in 1995.

5>> FEELING BLUE

He matched a pair of blue lenses with this eye-popping blue jacket in 2007.

6>> PURPLE PAIR

By the time the Noughties arrived, the micro glasses trend was over, but the singer, who was knighted in 1998, was still matching his specs to his suits.

 7>> SPARKLY SPECS

Attending the 2009 Elton John AIDS Foundation party, the pop star showed off a bespoke pair of sunnies emblazoned with diamante crystals spelling out his initials.

8>> GNOME SWEET GNOME

Pictured at the LA premiere of Gnomeo and Juliet in 2010, the singer – who was executive producer and contributed to the soundtrack – poked fun at his specs-obsession, donning a pair of novelty gnome glasses.

9>> DOING THE ROUNDS

These days, the pop icon’s fashion choices are a lot more conservative than in his early showbiz years, but he’ll still surprise us with a dazzling pair of designer glasses every so often, like the big round frames he wore on the Graham Norton Show in 2017.

10>> FAIR AND SQUARE

Rewarded for his services to music and charity, Sir Elton was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 2021 by the Queen of England.

Accepting the honour, he looked dapper in a dark suit and blue tie accessorised with a trendy pair of angular oversized frames.

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