![]() ![]() ![]() The other guys liked the mustache and according to McCartney, it became a “revolutionary idea” that men of their age should grow a mustache. The Beatles changed their look often and when one member of the group tried a new trend, the other members often followed suit. But the mark embarrassed McCartney so he soon decided to grow a mustache as a cover for the scar. The event left McCartney with a wicked scar on his upper lip.īoth the chipped tooth and the scar can be seen in the videos for their songs Paperback Writer and Rain, which were filmed shortly after the accident. Perhaps he realized that looking boyish was a significant part of his image and a beard wouldn't fit that He does look good with a beard IMO. During the Anthology, McCartney explained that the stitches were done without anesthesia, and even had to be done twice because the doctor lost the thread from the needle’s eye on the first try. So it is puzzling that the only two times he let it grow out into a beard were during the Let It Be period, and then again right around the breakup as seen on album photos for the McCartney album. He also lost a small corner of that front tooth in the impact.Ī friend of theirs, who happened to be a doctor, came around to help McCartney stitch the wound closed. The accident caused McCartney’s tooth to slam against his lip and split it open. “He was behind me, and it was an incredible full moon… I suddenly had a freeze-frame image of myself at the 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!” Why did the accident lead to growing mustaches? “We were riding along on the mopeds…” McCartney said. ![]() His friend and Guinness heir, Tara Browne was along for the ride that night. After smacking his face on the pavement, McCartney left the scene with a split upper lip and a chipped tooth.Īccording to the Beatles Bible, McCartney explained the accident in the Beatles Anthology. In December of 1965, Paul McCartney lost control of his moped and crashed. It turns out that the hairy upper lip, which became such an iconic Beatle’s look, was all because of a moped accident. Paul McCartney suffered a gruesome accident Sir Paul McCartney | Roberto Ricciuti/Redferns Here’s the story of the accidental reason the Beatles decided to grow a mustache. However, the 60s trend almost didn’t happen. We love to laugh about a character twisting his mustache “ handlebars,” but this isn’t a new phenomenon.Īt one time the Beatles wore mustaches and even made it into a joke by providing mustache cutouts to their fans. Today we even have a fake mustache trend where people joke about the look by holding up paper cutouts of a mustache or draw a mustache shape on their inner finger to hold up to their face. Some consider them powerful and masculine, while others consider them downright silly. Mustaches have gone in and out of style for centuries. ![]()
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