All of a sudden this is coming back, not as part of the street scene, but in our minds, and for quite some time now. I think of men and women with cleavage, and men wearing suit with a vest. Plus there`s a whole lot of other stuff; chains, sunglasses, mustache, sideburns, bell bottoms, you name it. Being in my teens back then, I must say I didn`t pay it any mind. It simply was the way people were, although Frank Zappa was mocking it in his "Dancing Fool" from the "Sheik Yerboty" album, plus the "Saturday Night Fever" craze. Now, when looking back, it all has that odd twist. People my age were either a freak or a posh, never a pimp. It just wasn`t in my zone.



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All of a sudden this is coming back, not as part of the street scene, but in our minds, and for quite some time now. I think of men and women with cleavage, and men wearing suit with a vest. Plus there`s a whole lot of other stuff; chains, sunglasses, mustache, sideburns, bell bottoms, you name it. Being in my teens back then, I must say I didn`t pay it any mind. It simply was the way people were, although Frank Zappa was mocking it in his "Dancing Fool" from the "Sheik Yerboty" album, plus the "Saturday Night Fever" craze. Now, when looking back, it all has that odd twist. People my age were either a freak or a posh, never a pimp. It just wasn`t in my zone.

I hear you loud and clear, you could feel all that in the Stones work at the time.

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Was just thinking that in that hirsute decade the Stones were one of the very few bands not to go beard crazy. I know Mick had one at one point and maybe Charlie, and there was a mustache or two, but it was never a major look for them. Unlike virtually every other group back then!

Funny you mention the hiruste decade, Wry. I have a lot of friends on Facebook from my college days and there are pictures of most everyone. Looking at those pictures now I am struck by how many of the guys had beards and/or mustaches.

Noughties, you're not imagining it, that look has definitely come back. Starting, of course, with Hollywood.

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Beats pants sagging under butt cheeks with tighty-whiteys outlining the buttcrack above....now that's sleaze....><

In the 70s, rock music was something of a circus, and it didn't pay to get old....

8 ta 21 ..... but those number will change



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Rockman, did you have math problems in school??

....Watt eggsactly iz ah school?



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stonehearted
In the 70s, rock music was something of a circus, and it didn't pay to get old....

They have Charlie on the cover, and not Keith? WTF?

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They have Charlie on the cover, and not Keith? WTF?

Haha, quite a random bunch of rock stars there. But they did get Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison and Presley in there.

In all fairness, I don't think Keith's famous "most elegantly wasted" or "most likely to die" epithets appeared until a few years later, circa 1973. (For example, Nils Lofgren has acknowledged that he wrote "Keith Don't Go" after hearing rumours about Keith's condition at that time.)

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treaclefingers
They have Charlie on the cover, and not Keith? WTF?

Haha, quite a random bunch of rock stars there. But they did get Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison and Presley in there.

In all fairness, I don't think Keith's famous "most elegantly wasted" or "most likely to die" epithets appeared until a few years later, circa 1973. (For example, Nils Lofgren has acknowledged that he wrote "Keith Don't Go" after hearing rumours about Keith's condition at that time.)

Still, I find the cover insulting to Charlie...AND KEEF!

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8 ta 21 ..... but those number will change

Only Jim, Jimi, Elvis & Janis didn't survive the 70's, right?

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Rockman
8 ta 21 ..... but those number will change

Only Jim, Jimi, Elvis & Janis didn't survive the 70's, right?

does brian's demise in '69 count?

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....Watt eggsactly iz ah school?

skool, rockee, skool. kinda like kollege.