The Beatles weren’t trying to do a ‘gimmick’ with their long hair. The Beatles were trendsetters with their music, becoming one of the first UK groups to score big in the United States.

The Beatles’ long hair caused bewilderment amongst the media and some public backlash by the early 1960s with kids often emulating the mop-top hairdo and facing the consequences at school and ...

Since the rise of the Beatles, long hair has spread from hard-core rock ‘n’ roll fans to the entire teen and post-teen population.

Fashion is a never-ending cycle, and the world of hairdressing is no exception. After dominating music scenes and streets in ...

In many ways, Deirdre Kelly’s “Fashioning the Beatles” is long overdue. We take it for granted, as a kind of pop-music commonplace, that the Fab Four transformed rock ‘n’ roll’s ...

The ultimate pop phenomenon, they appear everywhere in the '60s: on TV, movie screens, magazine covers, lunch boxes, dolls, dishes and more. Beatlemania influences hairstyles and clothing, but ...

It had been two years since The Beatles set foot in America, shocking clean-cut folks everywhere with their mop-top hairstyles. And it seems in 1966 the administration at Fargo North High School ...