The John Lennon forever stamp in the Music Icons commemorative series is being issued today in New York City.
The stamp honoring the famous singer-songwriter and founding member of the Beatles is being issued in a pane of 16, with the stamp pane design resembling the sleeve of a 45rpm record.
The stamps all feature the same photograph of Lennon taken by Bob Gruen in August 1974, but the stamps in each horizontal row will be treated in different gradient colors, creating four different major varieties.
The colors on the stamps in the first row change from yellow orange to red, the second row changes from red to light purple, the third is light purple to dark purple, and the fourth is dark purple to blue.
The image on the reverse of the pane is a familiar black-and-white photograph by Peter Fordham of Lennon at his white piano, with Lennon's signature in white above the scene. The photograph originally was used to promote Lennon’s 1971 solo album Imagine.
The John Lennon stamp was designed by Neal Ashby; Antonio Alcala was the art director.
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