How about the part in the hair?

[JoJo]

Since it's getting too quiet around here, how about discussion about a visual difference. Ok, here's the thing, If you look at pics of Paul starting when he's a little kid and in the early years when he was still combing his hair back, he parts his hair down the left side of his head. (our right) As the "Beatle haircut" emerges, there is really no part, but if you look closely, the hair seems to fall right to left, or is inclined to.

1967 pics show a Paul with hair perfectly combed in such a way that there is no part at all, but as time goes on, the part is now on his right. Some pics would be helpful, but I'm beat, maybe later..

The first issue of the Todd Loren comic got me thinking, looking at this panel:

[Doc]

Well, his hair "part" is something I had noticed. I also have a left side part from the earliest times. Growing up, my barbers followed the natural "cowlick" or whorl (or whatever the word is) pattern in my growing hair.
When I got to be a teen, I went thru a phase of HATING that very thing about my hair. When my hair was shorter, I tended to look like Little Lord Fauntleroy, or else Alfalfa from the Little Rascals (but not as "adorable?"). I would always get a few stupid few hairs that would poke up where the part kind of merges into the back of my hair like Alfalfa. When I hit high school, I let my hair long, like 95% of the male population at the school. Or, at least, as long as I could get away with with my parents not insisting on a trim.
I tried to change my part, I tried to move it to the other side, I tried to obliterate it altogether, I tried to part my hair in the center like the lead singer for "America", I tried to put a body wave in it, I tried it blonder, I tried it darker, I tried to do a mullet (that was a disaster, the back of my hair would not grow long) tried to go without bangs (my big ugly forehead is too domelike to leave it that way) I tried to come it forward, backward, spray it down flat----everything.

Nope, it always fell into the natural place it wanted to go. Part on left, pronounced cowlick, alfalfa sprig, Beatle bangs. Coudn't get away from it.
I can spend $125 at a chic stylists, by their hair gel, etc, practice the new "cut". Later that day----back to square one.

Anyway, its what it is.

What has this got to do with Paul's hair?

Well, forgive me for saying so, for there is not one feature at all that I have in common with Paul whatsoever----save the "cowlick" situation. I mean, no common face features, I'm a chubby, he was a slender man, etc. He was dark, I am pale with ash hair. He had dark brown eyes, I have light hazel. We have really NOTHING in common.

Except------the "cowlick". I understand the torment of the "cowlick". It is hard to get around the "cowlick", and the persistent "part" that is associated with it. Some people spend the time and money to overcome its pervasive nature. I gave up.

I was beaten by a "cowlick."

So, did Paul win the "cowlick" challenge, or was there a new scalp in town?

Only his hairdresser knows for sure...................................

[JoJo]

We have really NOTHING in common.

Well, you are both entertainers.. and entertainING! ;D

So, did Paul win the "cowlick" challenge, or was there a new scalp in town?

Only his hairdresser knows for sure...................................

Yes we forgot the one other person who knows "everything". Well except for a time in the seventies when every guy was dropping their barber and going to hairstylists to get the part down the middle and feathered back look, I too can not get the part to anywhere but down the right side. I remember it didn't really go down the middle they couldn't quite keep it from migrating to the right a little. A couple of decades and counting..

[JoJo]

Here's a little history through the years...






Here, the hair part is less visible because of the "Beatle haircut", but you can still see a faint dividing line.



After 1966 obviously: (well, Linda is there, if for no other reason)





From the "Paul is quitting the Beatles" front page story in the Daily Mirror.



Well there you have it, a migration from left to right...

[eyesbleed]

Hey THANKS JoJo!
That's an excellent little history of "The Part".

[JoJo]

And the last pic looks a little bizarre, he has that "caught with his mouth closed" look..

[jerriwillmore]

His barber said when PID came out that there was a tiny flaw in his hair part before his "death" and afterwards it was still the same. But if it changed from left to right....

[Harb]

It seems that in the 80's the parting went back onto the right side (his left) of his head. Here's an example...



This photo isn't mirrored - there's text within the photo that's the right way around.

[DarkHorse]

That looks like the middle to me or slightly off-center.