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My hair was not even close to being as long as Bowie's here when I caved in and got a buzzcut which is something I am still regretting after more than two months.
many of you probably don't consider this long at all and compared to the manes many of you have it is quite short.
David Bowie about long hair for men (1964)
Wow! Here's a slightly longer, uncut version (but awful quality!):
Longer version
David Bowie was born David Robert Jones not to be confused with
Davie Jones of the Monkees who died very recently.
I'm still upset that to this day the Monkees have not been inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
(I have a friend who worked for Davie Jones for a number of years
when he lived in Pennsylvania.)
Hi Nigel,
I have seen this a while ago on you-tube, and it shows to me that David Bowie and friends of Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Longhaired men, had at least a full year head start on the Beatles.
1964 was an extremely early time for this trend towards longer hair and I can only imagine the flack and persecution that these young men had to endure in those early days.
If they wore those same hair length today it would only be considered medium length and not long at all.
David Bowie and friends were amongst the very first to ignite the powder of the long hair revolution by actively growing their hair and hence being the spark, and THE BEATLES were the long hair dynamite powder that spread the message around the world as a famous pop group.
Thanks for sharing this youtube video with others on this board. A most significant early step on the return to historic long hair in the mid-late 20th century.
Cheers, Duncan
I was inspired to grow my hair long by the Beatles when they
appeared on Ed Sullivan.
At the time I was not aware of any other (like David Bowie)
growing their hair long previous to that.
As someone who was inspired to grow his hair long by the Beatles
I have to wonder why the Beatles made such an impact but David Bowie didn't in the hair department. After all Bowie had a large number of hit records over the years.
I hadn't even heard about this with David Bowie until it was
posted here this week and I have to wonder why that is. After all he sold 250 million albums.
Hmmm.....something to ponder over coffee.
This comment is, as they say, deja vu all over again. Why anyone should think the Beatles sprang into life fully formed on Ed Sullivan is beyond me. They had a number one in the UK in 1963, and got their trademark hairstyles no later than 1961, which were taken from the hairstyles of the German exis (existentialists). I wrote more on this the last time someone said Bowie predated them, and tire of rehashing it all.