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Short hair did come back into the mainstream during the 1970s and it was the Disco folks who were responsible!
This guy looks like John Travolta.
I prefer the way he looked with his longer hair in Pulp Fiction.
Hmmm....interesting comment but I am wondering if you ever saw the iconic album cover of a strutting Travolta (in a white polyester suit) pointing his finger and attitude to the disco heavens...Right behind him on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack is a longhaired Barry and Robin Gibb (and a balding Maurice)....I'm not sure disco was the cause of short hair (since a lot of men at the discos sported feathered hair)...A few little bands named the Police, the Sex Pistols and the Clash (to name just a few) all sported short hair (or short bleached spikes). Could the emergence of New Wave and punk music have something to do with a short hair revival around the same time as the disco juggernaut in late 1977 and early 1978? (Many emerging new wave artists, like the Cars and Blondie, sported hair that, at best, many of us here would consider the awkward stage)... Who knows for sure? After all, Bob Seger, the Doobie Brothers, the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, Supertramp and Queen were all popular during the SNF disco era...and there's no question, most of those bands had members who would unquestionably be considered longhairs....(and yet, many of these same bands had cut their hair short or shorter by 1980..when disco was on the way out....and New Wave music was becoming popular).... then in 1983, by George, Boy George and his long dreads were fashionable to some guys...
and unless you consider Billy Joel's and Michael McDonald's hair long then I would say most mainstream "Rock" acts were already going shorter at that point even much shorter than The Bee Gees, who you mentioned.
Forgot to mention these guys
they are the first band to initiate Punk Rock
and were called The Ramones
Grant Hart of Husker Du.
Not in my world, it didn't. Still rockin' still rollin' Still had it mid backlength, much as it is today. Only no white at the temples and the "stache' was still reddish brown, not white. Outside of the clubs and (dance) bars of the day, where it was unavoidable, my freinds and I eschewed Disco.
As someone who lived through the era and kept his long hair long
I'd have to disagree. Disco had nothing to do with it.
Part of it was a backlash against the anti war movement,
a backlash against Watergate, Remember in 1980, Carter lost the election and republicans had a ressurgance with the election of
Reagan.
I would also point out when I was in college in the late 70s
and early 80s we brought in a lot of rock bands many of them
had long hair.
ah, the neo-cons who preferred to bring back the 1950s and along with that the barbershop haircuts which they did.
I think you are correct about that.
If you did not wait to go to college until the end of the 1970s what did you do to avoid the draft during the early 1970s?
High draft number.
Also started college in 1973. Had to do a few extra years
(several changed majors, a few less than stellar grades, etc.)
So, what Rock bands did you bring to your school?