In 1964, when he was just 17 years old, Bowie formed The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men, an organization aimed at protesting the treatment that he and other men with long hair received on the streets of London.
Bowie explained that the organization was “really for the protection of pop musicians and those who wear their hair long. Anyone who has the courage to wear their hair down to his shoulders has to go through hell. It’s time we were united and stood up for our curls.” 
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The names, the physical harassment, and the injuries from those so opposed to men having long hair!!!
The vast majority then grew their hair out to be cool, they never were!!!
Now these same thugs shave their heads and have long unkept beards!!!
Still overtly uncool, you can not make a person out of a redneck asswhole ever!!!
of-the-mountain
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Oct 15, 2021
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He was beautiful no matter how he wore his hair.
Funny that not that long after those uptight days no one really pays that much attention to what a person does with rheir hair.
No one who matters anyway.
BufftonBeotch
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Oct 14, 2021
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Was he David Jones still? He changed his name when the Monkees showed up.
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