THE CUTTING EDGE

The Beatles' hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set o ff a cultural revolution as the most tangible symbol of the Sixties' psychedelic dream of peace, love and playful rebellion. At the centre of this epochal change was Leslie Cavendish, hairdresser to the Beatles and designer of the four iconic men's hairstyles, a b rand image as immediately recognizable as the Nike swoosh or the Coca-Cola bottle. But just how did a fifteen-year-old Jewish school dropout ...[Read more]