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Mullets we have loved: from George Clooney to Rihanna – in pictures

As a small Australian town prepares to stage its inaugural Mullet Fest, we look back at some of the most celebrated versions of the classic hairstyle. Was Ziggy Stardust’s cut the coolest of them all? And do you know what Andre Agassi kept hidden under his hairband?
• Mullet Fest: Australian town to crown ‘best mullet of them all’

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Main image: George Clooney as George Burnett Photograph: NBC via Getty Images

Fri 16 Feb 2018 02.42 EST Last modified on Fri 16 Feb 2018 03.10 EST

  • Two mullets for the price of one: Ronnie Wood performs with Rod Stewart in Glasgow in 1974.

  • Proof that beloved TV moms can rock mullets too: Florence Henderson was an early adopter as Carol Brady. She’s pictured here with the Brady Bunch kids in 1969.

  • John Stamos: a late 80s heartthrob on the hit TV show Full House.

  • Andre Agassi at Wimbledon in 1987. Was this America’s greatest sporting mullet? He combined shaved sides with frosted tips. But in his bestselling 2009 autobiography Open he revealed that for much of the 90s he relied on (hold on to your hair) a wig to hide his thinning locks.

  • Michael Bolton in 1991. The singer was as famed for his luxuriant locks as his pop rock ballads.

  • Did Joan Jett have a mullet or an ultra-cool shag cut? You be the judge.

  • He’s the voice: Australia’s John Farnham in 1987.

  • Shorter, blonder, louder: Yolandi Visser of the South African rap-rave outfit Die Antwoord on stage in New York in 2010.

  • Paul McCartney gets in on the act while performing with Wings in the 1970s.

  • Before the shades came the bleached mullet: Bono plays Milton Keynes in 1985.

  • No mullet appreciation would be complete without Chuck Norris. Here he is on the set of The Hitman in 1991.

  • ‘Hey, babe, your hair’s all right’ … David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust in 1973. The music critic Barney Hoskyns called this cut ‘the only cool mullet that there’s ever been’.

  • Oh George! Before ER’s Doug Ross and global movie stardom, Clooney played George Burnett in the 80s series The Facts of Life.

  • And the Grammy for country music’s most storied mullet goes to … Billy Ray Cyrus, seen here in 1993.

  • Add hairspray, LOTS of hairspray: Tina Turner in 1984.

  • Richard Dean Anderson, who played the problem-solving secret agent MacGyver in the 80s series, must have always carried hair gel along with his duct tape.

  • Rihanna puts mullets back on the map with her 2013 version, seen here in Soho, New York.
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