The bowl cut hairdo may be mocked by some, but it has quite a history in music.
For non-musicians, getting a bowl cut was a right of passage. Both boys and girls got them, but no matter who you were, the results seemed to fall into one of four categories, most often one of the last three:
a) Awesome.
b) Awkward.
c) Moe from the Three Stooges.
d) I cut my own hair and my Mom tried to fix it.
Sure, you may have sported a mop top or mushroom cut in the ’80s while dreaming of being the next Dorothy Hamill (just me?), but tell that story again by swapping out Hamill and replacing her with Johnny Ramone, and you’ve instantly increased your street cred by 300 per cent.
Not only has the bowl cut been sported by musicians, some have been defined by making the cut their own (Yolandi Visser, I’m looking at you). Though doubters may say it’s a hairstyle stuck in the 1980s, everyone from Johnny Marr to Mary J. Blige have been bringing it back.
Check out our gallery of bowl cuts above, or click on any of the names in the list below. Who did we miss? Let us know in the comments.
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