I'll go for real hair.

He just slicked it back.

Stones.

Yes, just slicked back, at the time I saw the movie it was a strange film, androgynous big time, never seen anything like that before, it wasn't released for years, there was a big hold up, something to do with the film studio not happy with the editing.

The only thing is--See how his hair is about shoulder length in the picture from the film about? Even when slicked back in the Memo from Turner sequence, it doesn't appear ANYWHERE as long.

If his hair is shoulder length otherwise, and then slicked back, the back should fall over his collar or be pulled into a ponytail; it isn't, it's just mid-ear length when pushed back, which doesnt make sense

My weird Performance coincidence story:  I took a couple of friends to see the movie when I was in law school.  Afterward, they were commenting on Mick's reading material in the bathtub; it was Jorge Luis Borges.  The three of us then stopped at a bookstore.  I pulled down a copy of the book, Swimming to Cambodia, by Spaulding Gray.  The first words of the introduction were, "In the autobiography of Jorge Luis Borges".  Eerie, huh?

StickyStones wrote on Jan 20^th, 2012 at 4:54pm:



I've seen it suggested more than once that Mick's hair as seen in Perfomance (as well as Rock and Roll Circus) is not all his own work. The lack of continuity you refer to is iperhaps evidence of this.

Iit has been suggested that folical enhancement has been going on since the late 60's. It makes sense when you look at father Joe and particularly brother Chris.

There are also (alleged) eye-witness accounts post Steel Wheels  that while it wasn't a wig there was something definitely "weird" about his barnet.