Celebri­ties have been sport­ing specs for thou­sands of years – the ear­li­est exam­ples date back 2000 years to Impe­r­ial China. But Buddy Holly did some­thing no other bespec­ta­cled celeb had man­aged to do. Per­haps it was his inno­v­a­tive take on Amer­i­can music, per­haps it was his less-is-more approach to eye­wear. What­ever the rea­son, the late, great rocker made wear­ing glasses a sta­tus sym­bol rather than a necessity.