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    Happy Birthday, Michael Bolton! We Celebrate With Music’s Most Iconic Mullets

    By Yahoo! Music | As Heard On... – Fri, Feb 24, 2012 3:18 PM EST

    [Photo: Ron Galella/WireImage]

    We know three things for certain about the '90s:

    1. Michael Bolton was the era's quintessential singer

    2. The mullet (the "business in front, party in back" hair style) was the quintessential haircut

    3. One man had the quintessential mullet—you guessed it, Michael Bolton!

    So for his birthday 59th birthday on Sunday, February 26, our friends at Snakkle.com found the best musician mullets to pay homage to the "Mullet Maestro" himself, Michael Bolton.

    [Photos: Ron Galella/WireImage; Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images]

    Michael Bolton mullet in 1992 and today: The Grammy winning singer was born with the less mellifluous last name of "Bolotin." But with a name change, a few soft rock ballads under his belt and his infamous mullet hairstyle, Bolton was the man (and mane) that made women swoon in the 90s.

    View the entire gallery at Snakkle.com

    [Photo: Ebet Roberts/Redferns, Jason Merritt/Getty Images]

    Jon Bon Jovi mullet in 1982 and today: Before Snooki showed off her signature pouf on "Jersey Shore", Jon Bon Jovi had his own version of the go-to Garden State 'do.

    [Photos: Peter Still/Getty Images; Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images]

    Bono mullet in 1985 and today: Bono has been known to be very serious about his charitable work, but in the mid-'80s he might have been even more serious about his amazing head of rocker-chic hair.

    Photos: TV stars who are older than you might think

    [Photos: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic; Rick Diamond/Getty Images]

    Billy Ray Cyrus mullet at The Grammys in 1993 and today: The same year Billy Ray Cyrus fathered this mullet, he became a dad to his little superstar Miley. Seven pounds nine ounces was the birth weight, and we're just talking about her hair!

    [Right photo: Michael Tran/Getty Images]

    Lionel Richie mullet in the mid-1990s and today: Lionel Richie's previous hairdo was once, twice, three times a mullet. And we loved it.

    Click here to see more stars sporting mullets at Snakkle.com

    Written by Kim Martin


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    • Terry
      Terry  •  3 months ago
      I loved my mullet. Very curly in the back and in the day the women loved it,but i knew i kept it a little to long when i was going in to a store one day and 4 girls in a car were yelling "Rock on, Mullet boy". I went straight back to my car and went and got it cut off...lol.
      • Shelley
        Shelley 3 months ago
        My fiance said he had one until the movie "Joe Dirt" came out. 'Nuff said.
      • jeannie
        jeannie 3 months ago
        Don't take crap from others...rock your own style. The mullet was cool hair.
      • *
        * 3 months ago
        Why would you cut your hair like that? Good thing they didn't yell at you to jump off a bridge.
    • VICKY
      VICKY  •  3 months ago
      Bon Jovi simply had long hair Where's the mullet? This was just an attempt to add another celeb to the list.
    • jappy
      jappy  •  Delafield, Wisconsin  •  3 months ago
      cyrus still has a slight mullet!
      • Shilo
        Shilo 3 months ago
        HAHAHAHAHA. Mini mullet....
      • Travis Bickle
        Travis Bickle 3 months ago
        I wouldn't say he STILL has a mullet, I think it's just creeping back. A mullet Cycle if you will. It shows up every twenty years.
      • King JoJo
        King JoJo 3 months ago
        he does and you are a bearded woman... why is that?
    • then some
      then some  •  3 months ago
      Bon Jovi had a shag not a mullet. Michael Bolton just had a brainfart.
      • Matt Capitano
        Matt Capitano 3 months ago
        michael bolten should have never had a career - lousy cover-singing poser
      • carol
        carol 3 months ago
        Carol says - OK maybe Jon Bon Jovi's wasn't a mullet, but it doesn't matter. He was hot back then and is super sexy now - he can do whatever to his hair.
      • dan
        dan 3 months ago
        And when you put on a Bon Jovi record...you can hear Bolton's brainfart.
    • Vincit Omnia Veritas
      Vincit Omnia Veritas  •  3 months ago
      A Missouri mudflap. A Tennessee tophat.
      • Boodog
        Boodog 3 months ago
        A Kentucky #$%$ cap...
      • B
        B 3 months ago
        Business in the front, party in the back
      • J
        J 3 months ago
        The Missouri Compromise..
    • Robert
      Robert  •  3 months ago
      Bon Jovi did not have a mullet. If we are speaking mullets, let's get it right at least.
    • jim
      jim  •  Mason, Michigan  •  3 months ago
      As much as it hurts to admit this, i had one
      • Mark T
        Mark T 3 months ago
        Millions of guys had one. Don't be afraid to say it. The fact is that it was very popular!
      • Matt Capitano
        Matt Capitano 3 months ago
        you idiot
      • jim
        jim 3 months ago
        i know
    • Mariah
      Mariah  •  3 months ago
      John Bon Jovi's hair was long, even layers all over. That's not a mullet. That's the classic 80s hair-band 'do. Much nicer than a mullet. Mullets were for guys who wanted to look "cool" but didn't have the courage (or the day job) to just let it all grow wild. In the 80s I kind of like them (did I just admit that??). In the mid-90s, I moved to Wisconsin for a couple years. They were still stuck in the 80s - men and women - mullets and poofed-up bangs everywhere you turned. It was surreal. (Cue Twilight Zone music). I'm not kidding. I often wonder if it's still like that there.
    • jp
      jp  •  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  •  3 months ago
      How can you claim to celebrate "Music's Iconic Mullets" without David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust, which as far as I know is where it all started?
    • Lindsey
      Lindsey  •  Chicago, Illinois  •  3 months ago
      Jon Bon Jovi and Lionel Richie didn't have mullets. And where's Richard Marx?
    • Captain Obvious
      Captain Obvious  •  Houston, Texas  •  3 months ago
      What about John Stamos? I suppose he wasn't technically a "musician" but he had the women wanting to fondle his mullet.
    • Mike B
      Mike B  •  3 months ago
      What the hell were we thinking. I used to curl mine in the back....seriously.
    • toadj
      toadj  •  Tampa, Florida  •  3 months ago
      Mullett...pronounced Moo-Lay.
    • LisaR
      LisaR  •  Temecula, California  •  3 months ago
      They forgot Joe Elliott of Def Leppard, he has the best mullet of all!!
    • The Italian Stallion
      The Italian Stallion  •  3 months ago
      since was billy ray cyrus an icon?
    • Paradux
      Paradux  •  Brooklyn, New York  •  3 months ago
      Any NASCAR event has Mullets and sleeveless T shirts everywhere...
    • Shane
      Shane  •  Missoula, Montana  •  3 months ago
      Most of these guys didn't even have mullets. Bolton just had long hair and was bald in front. Lionel Richie wasn't even close to a mullet. Bon Jovi had feathered 70s hair not a mullet. Whoever wrote this is a total idiot. Of course they said Michael Bolton was the 90s quintessential singer so that pretty much proves it.
    • Diss
      Diss  •  Show Low, Arizona  •  3 months ago
      lmfao...Lionel Richie did not have a mullet...YAHOO you suck more and more every day!
    • Terry
      Terry  •  Orlando, Florida  •  3 months ago
      Probably not as popular as the entries above....Richard Marks' mullet was crucial.
    • John
      John  •  Carrollton, Missouri  •  3 months ago
      What do they call that thing under Billy Ray's bottom lip? It looks like part of his lunch stuck there.
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