Greatest mustaches in rock history
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1 John Oates
The key to really wearing a mustache---rather than having it wear you---is confidence. Now clean-shaven, Oates wore his with the kind of bravado that Scotsmen bring to shortsless kilt-wearing: a caveman gleam in the eye, an open shirt and a fulsome explosion of bristles.
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Photograph: Courtesy Hollywood Records
2 Freddie Mercury
Most gents with an overbite will even out the facial plateau with a beard. Not Queen singer Mercury, who opted for this impressive thatch.
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3 Frank Zappa
This all-over-the-map composer is the Salvador Dal of the entertainment world, in music
and mustache.
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Photograph: Robert John
4 Lemmy
If whiskers were Spice Girls, Motrhead man Lemmy's would undoubtedly be Scary.
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5 Chuck Berry
Rock & roller Berry offers the 'stache equivalent of overplucked eyebrows---taking from top and bottom until near nothing remains.
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6 Ringo Starr
What could top the drum fills on "Strawberry Fields Forever"? The fact that Ringo's eyes slope downward at the same angle as his mustache.
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Photograph: Franz Miles Kerr
7 Franz Nicolay
The erstwhile Hold Steady keys player now has a solo album titled Luck & Courage; as robust an approach to life as it is to facial hair.
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8 Prince
Mustachioed, mulleted, wearing a shiny purple coat and still sexy. Mr. Prince, we salute you!
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9 JD Samson
Boldness is rewarded again, in Le Tigre/MEN lady Samson. If face fuzz could talk: "Yes it is, and yes I am."
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10 Donald Fagen
So thin! So well groomed! As if a single dreadlock has been glued to the Steely Dan singer's upper lip.
