I love to look at pictures of bands from the mid-sixties -they looked like such clean cut gentlemen. Then something happened around the end of the decade. By 1970, these bands became almost unrecognizable from their former fresh faces. These dapper young men all of a sudden became greasy hippies!
The perfect examples are the famous 1963 and 1969 pictures of the Beatles taken in a stairwell at EMI. The two images were wonderfully merged as shown above. (found here) It's striking to think that it was just a matter of six years between the two photos.
Another example is The Young Rascals, who changed their name to The Rascals and two of them got a whole lot hairier. They also mercifully ditched their Little Lord Fauntleroy outfits!
Another striking transformation was the psychedelic group, Marmalade. Look at one of my previous posts and see their metamorphosis from clean cut lads to unshaven stoners. Thankfully, they decided to no longer go by the name of The Gaylords!
Well, who are these fine young men trimming the Christmas tree? Why, it's the Beach Boys all dappered up in sweaters and slacks for the holidays!
Surely, such an upstanding group of gentlemen would never become a bunch of hippies. Right?
Wrong.
By 1979 Dennis Wilson was looking more like Charles Manson than Charles Manson!
Look here at an earlier post to see jazz flutist Herbie Mann go from mild-mannered nerd to oily sex machine.
The perfect examples are the famous 1963 and 1969 pictures of the Beatles taken in a stairwell at EMI. The two images were wonderfully merged as shown above. (found here) It's striking to think that it was just a matter of six years between the two photos.
Another example is The Young Rascals, who changed their name to The Rascals and two of them got a whole lot hairier. They also mercifully ditched their Little Lord Fauntleroy outfits!
Another striking transformation was the psychedelic group, Marmalade. Look at one of my previous posts and see their metamorphosis from clean cut lads to unshaven stoners. Thankfully, they decided to no longer go by the name of The Gaylords!
Well, who are these fine young men trimming the Christmas tree? Why, it's the Beach Boys all dappered up in sweaters and slacks for the holidays!
Surely, such an upstanding group of gentlemen would never become a bunch of hippies. Right?
Wrong.
By 1979 Dennis Wilson was looking more like Charles Manson than Charles Manson!
Look here at an earlier post to see jazz flutist Herbie Mann go from mild-mannered nerd to oily sex machine.My favorite hairy metamorphosis would have to be the Bee-Gees. From dapper gents to jive-talkin' kings of the chest hair. It's a wonder what a decade will do!
