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

By Yahoo! Music | As Heard On... – Fri, 24 Feb, 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  •  2 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 2 months ago
      My fiance said he had one until the movie "Joe Dirt" came out. 'Nuff said.
    • jeannie
      jeannie 2 months ago
      Don't take crap from others...rock your own style. The mullet was cool hair.
    • *
      * 2 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  •  2 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, United States  •  2 months ago
    cyrus still has a slight mullet!
    • Shilo
      Shilo 2 months ago
      HAHAHAHAHA. Mini mullet....
    • Travis Bickle
      Travis Bickle 2 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 2 months ago
      he does and you are a bearded woman... why is that?
  • then some
    then some  •  2 months ago
    Bon Jovi had a shag not a mullet. Michael Bolton just had a brainfart.
    • Matt Capitano
      Matt Capitano 2 months ago
      michael bolten should have never had a career - lousy cover-singing poser
    • carol
      carol 2 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 2 months ago
      And when you put on a Bon Jovi record...you can hear Bolton's brainfart.
  • Vincit Omnia Veritas
    Vincit Omnia Veritas  •  2 months ago
    A Missouri mudflap. A Tennessee tophat.
    • Boodog
      Boodog 2 months ago
      A Kentucky #$%$ cap...
    • B
      B 2 months ago
      Business in the front, party in the back
    • J
      J 2 months ago
      The Missouri Compromise..
  • Robert
    Robert  •  2 months ago
    Bon Jovi did not have a mullet. If we are speaking mullets, let's get it right at least.
  • jim
    jim  •  Mason, United States  •  2 months ago
    As much as it hurts to admit this, i had one
    • Mark T
      Mark T 2 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 2 months ago
      you idiot
    • jim
      jim 2 months ago
      i know
  • Mariah
    Mariah  •  2 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, United States  •  2 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, United States  •  2 months ago
    Jon Bon Jovi and Lionel Richie didn't have mullets. And where's Richard Marx?
  • Captain Obvious
    Captain Obvious  •  Houston, United States  •  2 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  •  2 months ago
    What the hell were we thinking. I used to curl mine in the back....seriously.
  • toadj
    toadj  •  Tampa, United States  •  2 months ago
    Mullett...pronounced Moo-Lay.
  • LisaR
    LisaR  •  Temecula, United States  •  2 months ago
    They forgot Joe Elliott of Def Leppard, he has the best mullet of all!!
  • The Italian Stallion
    The Italian Stallion  •  2 months ago
    since was billy ray cyrus an icon?
  • Paradux
    Paradux  •  Brooklyn, United States  •  2 months ago
    Any NASCAR event has Mullets and sleeveless T shirts everywhere...
  • Shane
    Shane  •  Missoula, United States  •  2 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, United States  •  2 months ago
    lmfao...Lionel Richie did not have a mullet...YAHOO you suck more and more every day!
  • Terry
    Terry  •  Orlando, United States  •  2 months ago
    Probably not as popular as the entries above....Richard Marks' mullet was crucial.
  • John
    John  •  Carrollton, United States  •  2 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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