Beard Liberation Front
9th May
Media Release
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Campaigners pay tribute to iconic facial hair wearer Little Richard
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has paid tribute to Little Richard who has died aged 87.
Little Richard recorded a series of songs from the late 1950s including Good Golly Miss Molly which did much to influence the development of popular music in the 1960s.
His immediately recognisable public image, including a trademark pencil-brush moustache, was also central to his popularity.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, many male pop stars of the late 1950s, early 1960s were determinedly clean shaven. Little Richard pioneered a completely different ‘look’ including the moustache as performance art.
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