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Mick gets his hair done
May 8^th, 2015 at 5:09pm

Mick gets his hair done

"Going anywhere nice on your holidays, Mr. Jagger?"

by Amanda Uren

IMAGE: TERRY O'NEILL/GETTY IMAGES

It's 1963 in the BBC's salon, and a 21-year-old Mick Jagger is getting his hair done. It's time for a television experience.

At this point, The Rolling Stones were only one year into their five-decade existence, having formed as the Rollin' Stones in 1962. The band played its first gig on July 12, 1962, and it wasn't until early 1963 that the Stones' drummer Charlie Watts joined the lineup.

Each Stone wore long hair apart from one founding member, Ian "Stu" Stewart. Stu was chucked from the band by then-19-year-old manager Andrew Loog Oldham; allegedly, Stu didn't fit the Stones' image of "pretty, thin, long-haired boys." (Though, he stayed on a as piano player for the Rolling Stones right up to his death in 1985.)

The photographer who captured Jagger's hair, 25-year-old Terry O'Neill, was near the beginning of his continuing five-decade-plus career. He emerged as go-to photographer of media superstars, from Audrey Hepburn to Amy Winehouse — a far cry from his first job, employed in an airline's photography department at Heathrow Airport.

IMAGE: TERRY O'NEILL/GETTY IMAGES

"I only take pictures of people I fancy."
TERRY O'NEILL, 2012

IMAGE: TERRY O'NEILL/GETTY IMAGES

IMAGE: TERRY O'NEILL/GETTY IMAGES

"I wasn't trying to be rebellious in those days; I was just being me. I wasn't trying to push the edge of anything. I'm being me and ordinary, the guy from suburbia who sings in this band."
MICK JAGGER, VANITY FAIR, FEBRUARY 1992

IMAGE: TERRY O'NEILL/GETTY IMAGES

IMAGE: TERRY O'NEILL/GETTY IMAGES

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gorda Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 1,131 Gender:	Re: Mick gets his hair done Reply #1 - May 8^th, 2015 at 6:11pm Ha! Ha! That was the style back then!
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WaiteringOnAFiend Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 1,427	Re: Mick gets his hair done Reply #2 - May 10^th, 2015 at 1:48am The(ir) hair-fetishism is prob at least 10% of what makes them so splendid as a band, surely.
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Re: Mick gets his hair done
Reply #3 - May 10^th, 2015 at 12:16pm

That was gay.

And Madonna looks like a man. [Stop making movies. Nobody likes you.]
And Elton John doesn't look like a man. He looks like one of my sisters.

I am starting to believe that some of you doesn't like the Bono; well the "f -- you" sentence towards you.

I was just kidding, and I wish to tell to y'all that I am very sorry.

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