Get Yer 'Air Cut The issue of male coiffure, pop and counterculture before, during and after the Swinging Sixties
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ALAN CLAYSON is a composer, performance artist and author, born in Dover, Kent. He has written more than 30 books on various musicians and pop culture phenomenon, including George Harrison, Keith Moon, The Little Box of Beatles, The Walrus Was Ringo and The Yardbirds. His articles have been featured in the Guardian, Times, Independent, Mojo and Record Collector among others.The perfect book to take with you next time you visit the local barber. Possibly the best account written about the petty tyrannies of tonsorial fashion
- Simon Matthews, author of Before It Went Rotten,
Alan Clayson remains Britain's foremost rock 'n' roll chronicler - and this time round, the focus is on the looks which went with the sounds
- Dick Taylor (The Rolling Stones / The Pretty Things),
Alan has proven himself to be an enlightening and entertaining guide to the byways of popular culture. Who better to write this Hairstory?
- Tom McGuinness (Manfred Mann),
This fascinatingly readable book will grow on readers, whether they are bald or bouffanted
- Graham Sharpe, author of Vinyl Countdown,
To Alan Clayson's many talents - writer, musician, performance artist, pop trivia meister - we must now add top-notch (or, rather, topknot) historian. His chronicle of enforced barbering is hair-lirious
- Philip Norman, pop biographer and novelist,
My hair is a statement and always will be, even when I no longer have any.
The social revolution of the Swinging Sixties led to a renaissance of unchecked hair growth, and long hair, especially on men, was worn as a political or countercultural symbol of protest and as an expression of masculinity.
No-one who was affected by one of a turbulent decade's loudest controversies - or anyone who ever wondered what all the fuss was about - will fail to be interested in this personal account of when the 'us and them' divide between youth and elders was most profound.