Bad hair daze

From the Beatles' mop tops to the extravagant spikes of Seventies punks, the tonsorial antics of the music industry have long been a source of amusement.

Thanks to Q Magazine, which has today rounded up some of the worst offenders in a list of the 20 worst rock haircuts of all time, we have a chance to assess the history of rock hair, and stop it repeating itself.

Mike Score of A Flock Of Seagulls is a worthy winner, managing a weak grin while what resembles blowtorched candyfloss decomposes above.

Dave Hill in second place was also a reliable pointer of the direction not to take, particularly if you are wearing Bugs Bunny's teeth.

Christina Aguilera, who along with Cher is one of only two women in the Top 20, also makes a strong case for inclusion - if only for the sheer idiocy of wearing hair that will inevitably smother you in the night unless corralled in the world's biggest hairnet.

Nicky Clarke, the celebrity hairdresser, was invited by the magazine to give his verdict on each of the offending dos.

He agreed that Mike Score's was 'the most absurd haircut in music ever', described the wild blonde curls once sported by Aguilera as trashy, but reserved even harsher criticism for Bono's mid-Eighties mullet.

'Bono's delving into Chris Waddle territory,' he said.

The only star on the list that Clarke declined to maul was George Michael, whose Princess Diana-style hairdo from the days of Wham! earned him 20th place on the list.

'The fashion at the time was to have long hair,' Clarke said, diplomatically. 'This is quite a nice style.'

Nicky Clarke is George Michael's hairdresser.

Perhaps not everyone on the list deserves their place as richly as Mike Score. Poor old Benji Madden of Good Charlotte is carrying the can for a whole slew of punks who made the spiky look ridiculous long before him.

If you want to see where the punk spike really went wrong, then have a gander at Split Enz, the New Zealand Seventies combo that spawned Crowded House.

Jack Osbourne undeservedly gets the thumbs down for a little playfulness with his fin, as if he'd just watched There's Something About Mary.

And if we are really to pick upon the worst that a man can do to a blameless barnet, then we must mention Limahl, the chap who got it so wrong that he left the rest of the New Romantics looking like devilish matinee idols.