Imagine Lennon when he’s 64

SCIENTISTS have created an image of how John Lennon would have looked if he were still alive, it emerged yesterday.

Using the latest in computer technology, psychologists and computer scientists at St Andrews University created the image of the ex-Beatle as he might have looked on his 64th birthday today.

Lennon was killed at the age of 40 when Mark Chapman shot him in New York on December 8, 1980.

The scientists used the cover image from retrospective 1982 album The John Lennon Collection, in which the star was pictured just before he died, as a starting point.

Elisabeth Cornwell, of the university’s perception lab, then used “ageing” software to reproduce the natural effects of growing old on skin texture, hairline and hair colour.

The software can manipulate facial images to change the age, sex or race of an individual.