Beard Liberation Front
Media Release 21st March
Contact Keith Flett 07803 167266
TRIBUTE PAID TO KENNY ROGERS, THE HIRSUTE FACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has paid tribute to US musician Kenny Rogers who has died aged 81.
Kenny Rogers adopted a range of musical styles in his youth but from his 1969 Vietnam War hit, Ruby Don’t Take Your Love to Town, was situated firmly on the crossover between country and popular music.
As such he increasingly became a hirsute face of country music which had been dominated by an all American clean shaven image.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, Kenny Rogers music may not have been subversive in the main but his beard certainly was.
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