We celebrate some of the best and wackiest hairstyles of some of our music greats - which is your favourite 'hair do'?

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7 magnificent manes

Jean Rondeau
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Hair-raising harpsichordist Jean Rondeau

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Mezzo Blanche Thebom takes the long view

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Berlioz’s hair is simply fantastique

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Pianist Paderewski, plus bird’s nest

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Waltz composer Joseph Lanner goes for three beats in a barnet

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Spohr sports a prog rock look

Varèse defies you to laugh…

Hair, there and everywhere

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Paul Tortelier’s is as tempestuous as his musicianship

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‘Leave it just on the ears’, violinist-composer Pablo de Sarasate tells his barber

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Epic chops from composer Johann Strauss

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Italian pianist Federico Curli Colli

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Teddy boy tenor Nicolai Gedda

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A young Simon Rattle enjoys his fame without a brush

Authors

Jeremy PoundDeputy Editor, BBC Music Magazine

Jeremy Pound is currently BBC Music Magazine’s Deputy Editor, a role he has held since 2004. Before that, he was the features editor of Classic CD magazine, and has written for a colourful array of publications ranging from Music Teacher to History Revealed, Total Football and Environment Action; in 2018, he edited and co-wrote The King’s Singers: Gold 50th anniversary book.