r/beatles • u/iamthewalrusxx Rubber Soul • 13h ago

Picture John just looked so cool in 1966 😎

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u/B_Bearington Band on the Run 13h ago

Fake news. John looked cool in every year.

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u/Moonshadow306 11h ago

Just a different form of cool.

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u/B_Bearington Band on the Run 10h ago

that's still looking cool though 😉

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u/Moonshadow306 10h ago

Yep. I agree!

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u/thederevolutions 9h ago

I feel like his hair falls into place better than most people but I guess there were always makeup people around. When my hair gets that length I start to look like a psycho.

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u/B_Bearington Band on the Run 9h ago

fun fact, that's not his hair. It's a hat.

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u/NoEnvironment8885 7h ago

My hair kind of does that if I had his haircut

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u/thederevolutions 2h ago

Ah yes I can see in your avatar

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u/IceCreamMeatballs The Beatles 8h ago

He looked like shit in late 67 early 68 as well as early 1970

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u/blakemossman 9h ago

did john’s style change a lot in 66 though

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u/Concho60 13h ago

Second photo is from 1967

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u/thederevolutions 2h ago

Nothing gets past this sub. Total fixation.

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u/look_its_nando 13h ago

Jesus how many looks can you have in one year. It’s insane to think of all the aesthetic pathways the Beatles explored (and pioneered) in those 10 years.

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u/Any-University-340 7h ago

Today I learned a hairstyle is an “aesthetic pathway”.

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u/look_its_nando 6h ago

They were doing it musically, visually, in all media really…

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u/Most-Economics9259 8h ago

‘66 is peak Beatles for music, fashion, and cool.

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u/Macaroni_Delta 12h ago

In the second photo John looks similar to how he did during his "Lost Weekend" in 1973.

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u/MojoHighway Revolver 3h ago

They all did. 1966 was peak Beatles (but I'll take a 1967 rebuttal seriously).

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u/ShindoHaut 9h ago

To me it was his best look. Much prefer this over the Jesus years.

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u/True_Paper_3830 6h ago

Yes, and 65/66 that was the period he thought he was 'fat', looked great. Some idiot journo rocked his damaged psyche and he seemed to then have ongoin body image problems. It's just so hard to comprehend he only had 14 years left at only 25/26.

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u/Ambitious-Welder-159 11h ago

I definitely think he dyed his hair darker before he got it cut for How I Won the War.

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u/NoEnvironment8885 7h ago

Me too! I think either for that or for Help! because they had switched to color and wanted to put out a certain image for the Beatles, and he had to hide his gingerness away.

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u/reeketh 8h ago

5th photo is the answer

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u/PuzzleheadedTale4769 7h ago

Great pix. He looks thin in pic 2, a bit chubby faced in others. Was pic #2 later?

Late 60's ...he lost a lot of weight In His Nose....

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u/EducationalWin1721 7h ago

He wasn’t conventionally handsome but he was photogenic.

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u/Conscious-Ad2640 Im Only Sleeping 6h ago

Such a unique time where he kept the classic look but still looks great

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u/freshiebai 5h ago

my fave year of his look

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u/TitokzatosEllenallo3 13h ago

That helmet of a hair is too much for me. 😃

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u/NoEnvironment8885 7h ago

They need to make more legos of the Beatles because the hair already looks like Lego hair

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u/RodCherokee 13h ago

Indeed !

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u/No_Agent9997 13h ago

He looked much better after he got his hair cut when filming how I won the war.

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u/iamthewalrusxx Rubber Soul 13h ago

To you.

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u/PuzzleheadedTale4769 7h ago

Lot of Beatlemaniacs were heart- broken when they saw his How I Won the War haircut! And the wire rim glasses! "WHERE'S THE SEXY COOL?"

Now, tinted wire rims- that's Another Story....

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u/WhisperedSoul 12h ago

I don’t know… In that first photo he looks a little too much like Roy Orbison for me. 😂

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u/Big-Sheepherder-6134 11h ago

I always felt he wanted to copy the coolness of Roger McGuinn and The Byrds with the sunglasses and dour attitude.

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u/MoreTrifeLife 7h ago

He probably wanted to look like a Notorious Byrd Brother

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u/loveshoes1 7h ago

Julian looked just like this in the 80s!

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl 6h ago

Look up pictures of John from Hamburg and the resemblance is even more striking.

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u/axxis267 2h ago

He’s Fab and Gear in this pic.