Beard Liberation Front
October 7th
Tribute paid to Ginger Baker, one of the most iconic post-1945 beard wearers
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has paid renewed tribute to the musician Ginger Baker who died aged 80 five years ago this week.
The campaigners say that Baker had a distinctive beard and the combination of his energetic drumming and beard together was one of the most familiar positive images of hirsuteness in the 1960s and 1970s.
Ginger Baker’s lifestyle did not always live up to his iconic beard but there is no question that the musician was one of the best known post-1945 exponents of beard power
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, with both red, or ginger, hair and beard Ginger Baker uncompromisingly stood up as a positive symbol for an appearance that is often belittled or ridiculed. For that we salute and keep his beard power in the collective memory of the Beard Liberation Front five years on
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