Hairpieces in Rock

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Wig, plugs, transplant etc.. Well there's the obvious, Elton John. Then there's Phil Spector and rumour has it one of the other Walker Brothers sported a shaggy rug back in the day.

― kinski (kinski), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Bret Michaels - Singer of Poison - is pretty bald, but he just uses bandanas and cowboy hats instead of a wig..

― pete from the street, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr. Glitter

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1800000/images/_1802941_glitter150.jpg

It may be hard to believe but that syrup wasn't actually the worst crime he committed.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Paul Simon to thread (although he'd stopped wearing one when I recently saw him and G-Funk on Letterman)

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Also --- GENE SIMMONS!

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Glitter's hair is so ludicrous that it must be real

― Jonathan Z., Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Spot the hairpiece.

http://www.indie44.com/love/love.jpg

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, Tina Turner and Dolly Parton.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

John Lydon, Mark E. Smith. Probably Robert Smith.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Definately Robert Smith

― BrianB, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Rick James

― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

William Shatner.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

robert smith ? proof ! at once !

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I swear I saw some live footage where somebody ripped off his wig as they ran off stage.

― BrianB, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

So which of the guys from Love has one?

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.gearheadmagazine.com/cart/items/detail/RPMP031.jpg

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

John Lydon? proof on that too please!

What about Steven Tyler?

― tb chango, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.broadwaycostumes.com/images/sales/w-tina-turner-zoom.jpg

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I swear I saw some live footage where somebody ripped off his wig as they ran off stage.

That's from In Orange and was an intentional joke. He had given himself a buzz of sorts then and did so again in early 1992. Both times the haystack eventually returned.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

As to Lydon: a friend of mine worked on the film "The Independent", in which Lydon appeared. Everyone on the shoot got hair and makeup done, a process during which it's pretty hard to hide a toup.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Arthur Lee from Love is the hairpiece master. Rumor has it he fucked up his hair on some three day acid bender and it never grew back. So he stuck a beaver on his head.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Upper Crust!
http://www.juvalamu.com/crust/images/elaw-980502-dd-1.jpg

― BrianB, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The lead singer from Thompson Twins (Tom Bailey, was it?) - his ponytail was fake.

Guess you can add Adam Duritz of Counting Crows for similar reasons ...

― Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Kevin DuBrow from Quiet Riot - he made the mistake of going bald THEN wearing a syrup. Fooled no-one.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

It was once thought that the Beatles were sporting wigs during their earlier days. It might've been true too. Who can say for sure.

― may pang (maypang), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I know for a fact that Billy Corgan wears a bald cap. Underneath is his exposed brain, like those aliens from Mars Attacks!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm an area 51 employee, so I'm privy to these things;-)

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Scout Niblett
Maynard Keynes (when moonlighting in A Perfect Circle)

― Ben Dot (1977), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Umm... Maynard Keynes = economist, I meant that sweaty leather-short sporting dude form Tool, whoever he may be...

― Ben Dot (1977), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Maynard James Keenan.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

sting and gary numan are transplantastic

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Stephen Malkmus. Seriously.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

plugs or wig?

― Will (will), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Plugs.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

jeez. why can't these fucks just go bald with some dignity?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember the Metallica comeback performance on that execrable MTV Icon programme being really funny in that the three longest-serving members each had a separate hair loss-concealing strategy. To wit:
a) James Hetfield - combover/buoffant of what little remains up top into a tiny quiff.
b) Lars Ulrich - buzz cut and bleach
c) Kirk Hammet - hairpiece

What dignity?

― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no actual evidence to support this, but I can't help but feel that Charlie Harper's got an extraordinary amount of hair for a man of 60....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Forgot the piccy:

http://www.shocktherapy-boutique.com/me&charlie98.jpg

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Joe Lynn Turner (wig, due to alopecia)
Bono (according to Ian McCulloch, anyway - all Echo spite aside, I'm inclined to believe it)

― Schwingung (Damian), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I was kidding about Malkmus. Toupee, not plugs;-)

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, I just got back from seeing the Jicka @ Slim's in SF. Definitely a wig.

I'm betting everything's real on that smokin' bass player, though.

― Will (will), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

That raises another thread maybe but I'm not going to start it

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

DJ Fontana- looks like a cat it perched atop his head.

― Will (will), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

IS perched.

― Will (will), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

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