Who was the coolest looking musician for you as a teen?

axisus

There were two for me:

I discovered Queen when We are the Champions hit the singles chart. I could not believe his mad look with the two tone leotard, and massive cut out for his hairy chest! I loved Freddie in that period of time. I went back to their early days and his long hair was a bit weird, and I never liked the later look with short hair and tache. But that 70s period when his hair was medium length - so cool!

This is not that leotard (couldn't find a decent pic) but it's another mad one!



The other one for me was late 70s Neil Peart. I discovered Rush and they were one of my most important bands. Neil just looked soooo cool with the long hair and long tache. 

Nitefly

Steven Stills for me, early 1970's:

Bah, can't post a pic, but I used to have my hair like his...

Dominic

 Roy Wood and as number 2 Marc Bolan
although I should warn you that I also thought Dave Hill's guitar was super cool ( it was ,in fact , SUPERYOB ) and I also wanted a pair of Bay City Rollers trousers .
  Whilst some of those things embarrass me now I am still a huge Roy Wood fan from the Move ,Wizard and solo stuff.
A great and very underrated musician and songwriter .
I was about 11 or 12 years old watching him on TOTP in his wildest Wizard make up and hair/beard enjoying Ball Park Incident  ( still a great tune ) when my grandmother came in ......screamed and said " Oh my God,it's a Wildman from Borneo "
  That made him even cooler to me .
Strangely enough as an adult I have been to Borneo and Sarawak and never seen anybody who looked in the slightest like Roy Wood !

Dominic

I also thought Lol Creme of 10cc looked cool because he had a white stratocaster when they did "Donna "
Ironically ,a white strat would be my very last choice of guitar as an adult.

Kittyfrisk

Milli Vanilli! 













Not entirely seriously 

breakstuff

The Edge during the Joshua Tree era. Thought he was pretty much the coolest bloke on the planet. 

 

boogieman

I always wanted to be Meddle era Dave Gilmour. He looked cool and was really good looking at that time. We look kind of similar nowadays, both bald as badgers.

Hootsmon

I think Jimmy Page in all those dragon gear getups was the most photgenic cool dude ever.....when i was a kid

HAL9000

Showing my age here…

Clapton
Keef
George Harrison

Kittyfrisk

For real Marc Bolan (met him!); Alice Cooper ; David Bowie/Mick Ronson & even Elvis Presley (comeback tour era) all the way up to date. 
Stars keep coming, some remain  

MagicPigDetective

Kurt Cobain, by a long way. He looked so utterly cool, rebellious, wore t-shirts from obscure bands, his hair colour and length changed weekly, he taught us early 90's teens the scruffy grunge look,  though no-one looked anywhere near as cool as he did. This pretty much remains my dress style 30 years on! 

I love the Charles Peterson photos of the Seattle bands of that time:

 

GavRichList

Johnny Greenwood. 

Russell Lissack. 

stratman3142

Paul Kossoff.

underdog

Slash for me back then and now I'm in my 40s and more mature, its still Slash

poopot

Run DMC… 
Beasty boys
NWA…

sorry not sorry

Tenebrous

The Strokes. Just a bunch of chill dudes.

DiscoStu

Freddie Mercury when I was a kid/early teens, then James Hetfield (Lightning/Puppets era when he had the long hair but was clean shaven) in my later teens.
I wanted to be both of them. I am still neither.

ICBM

John Taylor

Bellycaster

At 13 I wanted to look like Morten Harket.

At 17 I wanted to look like Jeff Hanneman.




























At 49, I now look like Jeff Hanneman.

Kittyfrisk

PS, why is appreciation of cool musicians deprecated by age?

Kebabkid

Scott Gorham followed by Phil Lynott