David Bowie
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Is this a trick question?
Of course not. He was a pop star.
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Damn, beat me to it. I wanted to make a thread going like: "There are people like us..."
"And then people like David Bowie who die a thick NW1 at 69 years old."
What a blissful life he must have lived. Well, he didn't really, but I don't think a NW5 in his youth would have eased his burden.
His hair was like 50% of his career. The other 50% was great and innovative pop music.
If he had lost his hair at 25 his career would have been over if he would not have worn a wig.
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His hair was like 50% of his career. The other 50% was great and innovative pop music.
Being semi-good looking is a prerequisite to being a pop star. I can't think of any pop star that is bald and still has a career.
I can, however, think of many bald celebrity actors though, because hollywood NEEDS a bald man to remind us that there is a social divide between the privileged and the balding shitheels.
Hairloss23
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Yep, the only one I can think of off the top of my head is Pitbull and he is told to make crap music by the Illuminati so that all pop fans are brainwashed into hating bald people.
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Pitbull isn't bald. He razor shaves it. If you look at his head, he's still got stubble and a hairline.
Hairloss23
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Pittbull is not bald:
Oh sorry Fred, but close enough, he does his best to be bald and make crap music at the same time, which clearly means he's in the business to cast a bad light on baldies.
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That was well put. I've never quite heard it expressed in this way but I'm sure I've always instinctively known it.
And if this guy is a rapper I wouldn't really say he's a pop star.
I do not think of rap as pop.
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I was watching Antman on a recent flight, as soon as I saw the bald guy, I knew he would be the villain. Then I watched Mad Max Fury Road... Yeah... Lucky Bowie. Hell, lucky most people. Returning home over Christmas and going out for new years reminded me just how uncommon it is for men under 35 to have any noticable hair loss beyond NW2. I could count on one hand the number of bald men under 60 at the bar 
Hairloss23
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He is not good enough to be a rapper, if he is a rapper he is in the same category as the likes of Iggy Azalea and Chris Brown, crappy singin rappers, so basically pop.
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I was watching Antman on a recent flight, as soon as I saw the bald guy, I knew he would be the villain. Then I watched Mad Max Fury Road... Yeah... Lucky Bowie. Hell, lucky most people. Returning home over Christmas and going out for new years reminded me just how uncommon it is for men under 35 to have any noticable hair loss beyond NW2. I could count on one hand the number of bald men under 60 at the bar
It will all get better in time (around 20 years most likely), not because you will learn to cope easier but because you will all of a sudden be surrounded by other bald guys your own age.
Damn, beat me to it. I wanted to make a thread going like: "There are people like us..."
"And then people like David Bowie who die a thick NW1 at 69 years old."
What a blissful life he must have lived. Well, he didn't really, but I don't think a NW5 in his youth would have eased his burden.
His hair was like 50% of his career. The other 50% was great and innovative pop music.
And on top of all that, his wife Iman is gorgeous.
God rest his soul. I had a couple of his "albums" back in the '70s.
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This whole Bowie thing has got me thinking... Look at all the famous pop culture figures that you see on posters and t shirts.
Bob Marley, Che Guevara, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Umm......John Lennon.
You STILL...see these artists adorning clothing even though they are long dead. Just walk past any university or visit a fashionably hip suburb.
You are bound to see these iconic images.
These artists all have one thing in common......
Bob Marley, Che Guevara, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Umm......John Lennon.
You STILL...see these artists adorning clothing even though they are long dead. Just walk past any university or visit a fashionably hip suburb.
You are bound to see these iconic images.
These artists all have one thing in common......
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Moby, Elton John.
I was going to say...being a balding pop star would stuck but Elton John is the largest selling solo act in music history and he burst onto the scene already in the process of losing his hair and still made it
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Didn't Elton wig up a lot, though??? He was very "flamboyant" so he could get away with it. I don't think we could walk down the street wearing some of the wigs that Elton wore!!
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Fook!! Going at 69-70 would be fine in my books!! At least at that age you can STILL wipe your own a-s-s!!
It wouldnt of mattered if Bowie lost his hair. He was just an immense talent on so many levels. The 90s pop ruined music for a while also what the acceptable image was for a pop star, but musicians and artists are starting to break the boundaries with talent like Ed Sheeran hes like a 4. But there have been a great amount of balding/bald stars. Phil Collins, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkle, James Taylor, Elton John, Billy Corgan, Common, Ne-yo (hides under a hat though), Billy Joel, Michael Stipe.... John Lennon was also balding before he got gunned down. Apparently had a spot on his crown he would cover. Now if your just a vocalist having people write songs for you than looks are huge, but if your a talented musician you'll be fine.
The guys you mentioned were all well established at the time they lost a good amount of hair. If they had lost their hair in their early - mid 20s they would have fallen off the grid.
Lennon had essentially a full head of hair at the time of his death. Look at the photos on the two virgin disc, which was his last one:
http://www.amazon.com/Double-Fantasy-John-Lennon/dp/B00004WGEK
Simon and garfunkle both had hair a good way into their careers. Simon wore a piece for awhile.
For Elton John's Honkey Chateau he had a little thinning so they hid his head:
http://www.amazon.com/Elton-John-Honky-Château/dp/B000001EGE
Elton's pic isn't even on the cover of Don't shoot me I'm only the piano player:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1ZNYqcaE1M
Or madman across the water:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/madman-across-the-water-mw0000190515
Or tumble weed connection:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/tumbleweed-connection-mw0000650322
For goodbye yellow brick road they did a drawing of Elton with a full head of hair:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/37869140?...88309288&wl4=&wl5=pla&wl6=89023729488&veh=sem
For rock of the westies they put him under a hat:
http://www.amazon.com/Elton-John-Rock-The-Westies/dp/B000001EM3
In Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy they made a drawing of him and put him under a hat:
https://www.google.com/webhp?source...tXMUqnWSUXpSaW5BdZgaWKrcD6yoqqTAwBohq_pFIAAAA
As far as Billie Joe goes not only was he well established after he lost a bunch of hair but once he put out Piano Man he had a good shot of sticking because the industry found out how good he is. In the middle of his career he still had a bunch of his hair as evinced by the glass houses disc and the stranger:
http://www.amazon.com/Glass-Houses-Billy-Joel/dp/B00000DDMH
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0..._m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1819EYY79E6DEK5V9S2V
Ed Sheeran isn't even a big name and never was cuz I've never heard of him. Same for Michael Stripe and Ne-yo, whoever they are.
James Taylor had a bunch of hair a long way into his career.
When Phil Collins got in he had a bunch of hair and he built up a fan base with Genesis. He was the most talented member of Genesis.
Once a musician gets into the industry with some hits the industry is going to let him keep producing because they never know if he might come up with another hit. But getting into the industry missing hair is another matter. There may be a few musicians who got in missing hair but not many. Bobby Darin wore a piece and so did Sinatra.