The Beatles' influence on popular culture#The mop-top haircut

As the mushroom head hairstyle was called, who carried the members of the rock group The Beatles in the early 1960s. Similarly, one called the Beatles in German-speaking countries as the " Fab Four ". In English-speaking people spoke of "mop -top" or " moptop " because of the resemblance to a mop.

As creator of the Beatles hairstyle was previously thought, the Hamburg photographer Astrid Kirchherr, because she cut her then boyfriend, the first Beatles bassist Stuart Sutcliffe 's hair in this way. However, the actual role model was her friend, the photographer Jürgen Vollmer. Vollmer cut Paul McCartney and John Lennon 's hair in October 1961 in his hotel room in Paris, as Lennon and McCartney visited him there. He even had this hairstyle cut, long before Astrid Kirchherr and Klaus Voormann first met him. In the 2000s, Vollmer made ​​by attention to the fact that he is the actual model and the inventor of the hairstyle associated with the Beatles. It emerged article in the German Rolling Stone magazine, Spiegel online or Hamburg evening paper, and he was interviewed for television broadcasts. On the origin Vollmer said in his interviews that he would one day not slicked back as usual after swimming his hair down his forehead, but just let them air dry and henceforth maintained this hairstyle. This was his personal rebellion against the philistinism and he was also the hostility of the teachers it not be swayed.

Paul McCartney and John Lennon confirmed in interviews that Vollmer was the model and the performer for their haircut.

" [ ... ] To get back to the haircut. I should know! We saw a guy in Hamburg, Whose hair we liked. John and I were hitchhiking to Paris. We asked him to cut our hair like he did his. Hey what living in Paris. Hey what sort of an artsy guy, a photographer friend of everyone. His name what Jurgen. "

" [ ... ] To get back to the haircut. I need to know it! We saw a guy in Hamburg whose hair we liked. John and I went hitchhiking to Paris. We have asked him to us to cut the hair as he had done with them. He was then living in Paris. He was a kind of type of artist, a photographer friend of each. His name was Jürgen. "

" He had his hair mod style. We said, ' Would you do our hair like yours? ' "

"He had his hair in the Mod style. We said: Would you like your hair done our hair "

" Jürgen had a flattened -down hairstyle with a fringe in the front, rather Which We Took to. We went over to his place and there and then he cut - hacked would be a better word - our hair into the same style. "

" Jürgen had a flattened hair style with bangs forward, which we liked quite well. We got ' over to him and immediately he cut - chopped would be a better word - our hair in the same style. "