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

Jonathangus

skullfunkerry said:

Boromedic said:

Yeah, but was he second hardest in the infants????

Ronnie Pickering was the hardest

Who?

CHRISB50

Not a musician for me. 

When I was a teen it was all about Michael Caine in the Italian Job, and this suit...



Although his right sleeve is either slightly too short, the cuff on his shirt is slightly too big, or it was cut to wear with a watch, and he's not got one on.

Anyway... Beautiful!

ICBM

CHRISB50 said:

When I was a teen it was all about Michael Caine in the Italian Job, and this suit...

I don't think anyone has ever looked cooler in a suit than Sean Connery.



That said - and despite my love of Duran Duran and early-80s Roxy Music, I look stupid in a suit, so it wouldn't 'suit' me...

Kittyfrisk

^  I think I might agree, except for Cary Grant in 'North by Northwest'.
Also (pedant alert) Connery is wearing a jacket & slacks 

https://www.grailed.com/drycleanonly/cary-grant-north-by-northwest-style

Offset

If we're extending it beyond musicians, then this.  No-one was cooler.

Kittyfrisk

@Offset  Fair point.
Although you might squeeze Steve McQueen in here anyway 

Philly_Q

Oh god, it's turning into GQ...

CHRISB50

Philly_Q said:

Oh god, it's turning into GQ...

Sorry! 

Lets get back on topic fellas!! 

Musicians...

If I had to pick someone probably Steve Craddock from OCS days. 

skullfunkerry

Jonathangus said:

skullfunkerry said:

Boromedic said:

Yeah, but was he second hardest in the infants????

Ronnie Pickering was the hardest

Who?

Ronnie fucking Pickering!

Shrews

Kate Bush.

I fell in love with her eyes on Army Dreamers, and then started to notice lots of other things about her as my teens rolled on. To me she had it all, even with the sound turned down.

Blokes
I suppose Sid Vicious was the first one who woke me up to scruffy being cool. We were as poor as church mice so that look was achievable. A little before my teens though. Dammers was pretty cool on keyboards playing 'Gangsters'.  Prince as I got older, he could pull the chicks, sing, act, play the guitar, pretty darn cool really.

NPP

Hendrix (who was 15 years dead by then), Keef (who's the age of my mum) and Muddy Waters. I was a strange teen, or the 80s were a strange time. 

Headphones

Offset said:

If we're extending it beyond musicians, then this.  No-one was cooler.

When in England (presumably filming), he used to go riding with my dad!

RearWing

RearWing

https://imgur.com/a/knv8eoY

camf

This thread has made me realise I’m so out of step with most people in this community. That’s my problem, not anyone else’s, but it is quite thought provoking. Still, I do love guitars, so that’s good. 

Philly_Q

camf said:

This thread has made me realise I’m so out of step with most people in this community. That’s my problem, not anyone else’s, but it is quite thought provoking. Still, I do love guitars, so that’s good. 

@camf That's cryptic!  So who do you think is cool?  I say that out of curiosity, not to be argumentative.

cj73

Can’t believe no one’s said this yet (or I’ve missed it).  But growing up in 80’s Lanarkshire it could only be Bruce Springsteen. 

thecolourbox

The Strokes for me, mostly. I was 16 when they came to the fore and prior to that all the music scene seemed to be nu metal or bed-wetter post-Britpop neither of which were cool or stylish. I still basically dress like this especially when I'm trying to look hip or cool:



Not so much a style I (or basically anybody) could pull off however my absolute hero, and therefore my favourite coolest person in general ever would be....

camf

Philly_Q said:

camf said:

This thread has made me realise I’m so out of step with most people in this community. That’s my problem, not anyone else’s, but it is quite thought provoking. Still, I do love guitars, so that’s good. 

@camf That's cryptic!  So who do you think is cool?  I say that out of curiosity, not to be argumentative.

I wasn't really trying to be cryptic. I just naively thought that my own teenage icons might be better represented on here, but not one of them has appeared so far. I was just surprised, in that way when you assume your own influences would be sure to be shared by other people in your generation. Over the years, when I've been asked about influences or people I've admired to aspired to, I've always pulled out the same half-dozen names but nobody has mentioned any of them. I'm not going to list them because I'm interested to see if any of them eventually pop up. 

randerson

Slash all day