Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime. Okay, we're all set to form a band so we can be famous and get chicks and free beer. Let's check to make sure we have everything we need. Instruments. Check. Amplifiers? Check. A couple of hit songs. We've got them. All right, I think we're ready. Hey, hey, hang on.

I have a feeling that something Uh, check. Amplifiers? Check. A couple of hit songs. Got them.

All right, I think we're ready.

Hey, hey, hang on. I have a feeling that something's missing. Something's missing. What else is there? I got it. I got it. I got it. Look at your head. My head. Look at my head. My head. Yeah, yeah, your hair. We can't be a famous rock band if our singer has hair like that.

What do you mean?

What's wrong with my hair? my head. Yeah, yeah, your hair. We can't be a famous rock band if our singer has hair like that.

What do you mean? What's wrong with my hair? Rock and hair go hand in hand, man. For as long as there's

been rock, there's been rock and roll hair. If you're going to rock out, you've got to do something

with the do. Show some style, dude. Well, well, okay, what should I do? Maybe a little page boy. You know, I've always admired Meg Ryan's tussled look. Remember her and when Harry met Sally? Hey, oh, I've always loved the way Jennifer Anderson did that thing with the part. You know, the little flip to the side thingy. That was pretty cheeky and sexy, don't you think? Maybe I should do the Winona Ryder thing.

Dude, dude, dude, you're scaring me.

You need some professional advice.

Here, listen to this.

This is the ongoing history of new music podcast with Alan Cross.

I'm a night round, and I'm so far away. with Alan Cross.

A flock of sea gals with Iran, their New Wave syntho hit from 1982.

I figured it was totally proper that we'd be in a show on rock and roll hair with something from those guys.

After a while, there were two hairdressers in the band.

And who could forget, Mike scores goofy, swoopy, in your face haircut.

In fact, when you talk about New Wave hairstyles from the 1980s,

the first guy who inevitably comes to mind is the dude from a flock of seagulls.

Welcome again, I'm Alan Cross, and this show is all about hair. I know that might sound a little weird at first, but think about it. Hair has been an essential fashion statement in rock

from the very beginning.

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