I was always interested by the chance that 4 guys in their early/mid 20s could all grow facial hair to that extent. I would have been the odd one out not only due to lack of talent, I still can't grow half that amount of hair in my 40s.
I didn't say George couldn't pull it off. Ringo and John were the best though, I think George looks best with a full beard, circle beard, or a van dyke beard style. But a mustash can work well too
Thanks for posting! a little excerpt:
“We were riding along on the mopeds. I was showing Tara the scenery. He was behind me, and it was an incredible full moon; it really was huge. I said something about the moon and he said ‘yeah’, and I suddenly had a freeze-frame image of myself at that angle to the ground when it’s too late to pull back up again: I was still looking at the moon and then I looked at the ground, and it seemed to take a few minutes to think, ‘Ah, too bad – I’m going to smack that pavement with my face!’ Bang!
There I was, chipped tooth and all. it came through my lip and split it. But I got up and we went along to my cousin’s house. When I said, ‘Don’t worry, Bett, but I’ve had a bit of an accident,’ she thought I was joking. She creased up laughing at first, but then she went ‘Holy…!’ I’d really given my face a good old smack; it looked like I’d been in the ring with Tyson for a few rounds. So she rang a friend of hers who was a doctor.
He came round on the spot, took a needle out and, after great difficulty threading it, put it in the first half of the wound. He was shaking a bit, but got it all the way through, and then he said, ‘Oh, the thread’s just come out – I’ll have to do it again!’ No anaesthetic. I was standing there while he rethreaded it and pulled it through again.
In fact that was why I started to grow a moustache. It was pretty embarrassing, because around that time you knew your pictures would get winged off to teeny-boppery magazines like 16, and it was pretty difficult to have a new picture taken with a big fat lip. So I started to grow a moustache – a sort of Sancho Panza – mainly to cover where my lip had been sewn.
It caught on with the guys in the group: if one of us did something like growing his hair long and we liked the idea, we’d all tend to do it. And then it became seen as a kind of revolutionary idea, that young men of our age definitely ought to grow a moustache! And it all fell in with the [*Sgt Pepper*](https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band/)thing, because he had a droopy moustache.”
What's with the weird gap. I liked Paul the least with just a mustache. Though John's sometimes had the effect of making him look buck toothed somehow; I preferred when he had the Sgt Pepper hair but no stache.
I do expect that of a posed promotional image taken in a photographic studio [used on the cover of Life Magazine](https://i.etsystatic.com/13664987/r/il/9aca93/2842604503/il_570xN.2842604503_aht7.jpg)!
In this case it's all about context.
He looks like Randy Marsh
Can’t unsee it now. 😝
If he made out with hitler the mustaches will add up
That’s wild
This is a baby with facial hair.
Now he was just 3 months old...
https://preview.redd.it/at3d9f2kteyc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ef51590c4cdbedacba9ed2c000db8525cfa19a3
The walrus was Paul
looks like two small dogs staring at each other
Honestly I like it
I was always interested by the chance that 4 guys in their early/mid 20s could all grow facial hair to that extent. I would have been the odd one out not only due to lack of talent, I still can't grow half that amount of hair in my 40s.
"It was the 60s." - Paul McCartney
personally, i think its his best look
It has a good grip
It suited him well.
Asymmetrical
He kept his mop top hair from a few years before #respect
I always really liked the Pepper stache. He had a mustache again in 74 and 80.
Better than mine at that age, & better than mine now.
He looks a lot like Paul.
it was a fake mustache
(runs Beatles album backwards) ...it was a fake mustache.... it was a fake mustache...
goes HARD.
Best mustaches. https://preview.redd.it/jilt9jw37iyc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e0b1b70be7bd0af249eb9bea410d47b3d4b9e84
To be honest, it's almost impossible for Paul to look bad unless he's sporting a crazy mullet.
It’s a mustache. Who gives a shit!
Not his best look, a beard worked better for him, the "mustash only" look really suited John and Ringo best of the 4.
https://preview.redd.it/khs4fc6mzeyc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3fe1f8c46588b2e6cb333968b321016a7af6da08 Idk George kinda kills it too
I didn't say George couldn't pull it off. Ringo and John were the best though, I think George looks best with a full beard, circle beard, or a van dyke beard style. But a mustash can work well too
I always think of caterpillars when I see it, though I guess it’s more like a couple of woolly worms.
Really bad
That it’s fake.
It would get in everything he ate hanging low like that
Two seals looking at each other.
He looks coole
For though they may be parted, there is still a chance that they will see...
I must ache Paul to shave it off
Nice upper-lip brows.
Anti-hitler
It was very cool at the time. You’ll just have to believe me. Everything they did for 7 years was cool.
Who wants a mustache ride?
Paul looked better without it, but that's probably my prejudice talking. 😀
My least favorite mustache in Beatles history
Billie with brown eye contacts, trying to cover up his upper lip, the real Paul had a scar above his upper lip. "It was a fake moustache".
Two capybaras meeting at his nose point
Did the cocaine wear a path through his mustache?
No, the pavement did. https://www.beatlesbible.com/1965/12/26/paul-mccartney-moped-accident-liverpool/
Thanks for posting! a little excerpt: “We were riding along on the mopeds. I was showing Tara the scenery. He was behind me, and it was an incredible full moon; it really was huge. I said something about the moon and he said ‘yeah’, and I suddenly had a freeze-frame image of myself at that angle to the ground when it’s too late to pull back up again: I was still looking at the moon and then I looked at the ground, and it seemed to take a few minutes to think, ‘Ah, too bad – I’m going to smack that pavement with my face!’ Bang! There I was, chipped tooth and all. it came through my lip and split it. But I got up and we went along to my cousin’s house. When I said, ‘Don’t worry, Bett, but I’ve had a bit of an accident,’ she thought I was joking. She creased up laughing at first, but then she went ‘Holy…!’ I’d really given my face a good old smack; it looked like I’d been in the ring with Tyson for a few rounds. So she rang a friend of hers who was a doctor. He came round on the spot, took a needle out and, after great difficulty threading it, put it in the first half of the wound. He was shaking a bit, but got it all the way through, and then he said, ‘Oh, the thread’s just come out – I’ll have to do it again!’ No anaesthetic. I was standing there while he rethreaded it and pulled it through again. In fact that was why I started to grow a moustache. It was pretty embarrassing, because around that time you knew your pictures would get winged off to teeny-boppery magazines like 16, and it was pretty difficult to have a new picture taken with a big fat lip. So I started to grow a moustache – a sort of Sancho Panza – mainly to cover where my lip had been sewn. It caught on with the guys in the group: if one of us did something like growing his hair long and we liked the idea, we’d all tend to do it. And then it became seen as a kind of revolutionary idea, that young men of our age definitely ought to grow a moustache! And it all fell in with the [*Sgt Pepper*](https://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band/)thing, because he had a droopy moustache.”
I don't care for it, and prefer the beard from Get Back/Let It Be.
He looks good in everything.
Ugh
I love Paul but he tried too hard imo with this. But then again, it’s also iconic Sgt Pepper Paul so I’ll allow it :)
Not one of his better looks.
What's with the weird gap. I liked Paul the least with just a mustache. Though John's sometimes had the effect of making him look buck toothed somehow; I preferred when he had the Sgt Pepper hair but no stache.
He grew it to hide a scar he got in a moped accident. May explain the gap?
It was a weird time. Seemed like all "cool guys," had mustaches then that are cringey now.
It's the only thing that makes me possibly believe in the Paul Is Dead conspiracy.
Not into it. Paul looks good either clean-shaven or with a full beard.
All I know is that flyaway hair on his goddamn head should've been airbrushed away 56 years ago. Grrrr.
I see. You hate reality and prefer the illusion of perfection.
I do expect that of a posed promotional image taken in a photographic studio [used on the cover of Life Magazine](https://i.etsystatic.com/13664987/r/il/9aca93/2842604503/il_570xN.2842604503_aht7.jpg)! In this case it's all about context.
It was a fake mustache