Rumour has it Ron Wood is completely bald and sports a full syrup.

... of his baldiness coincide with REM getting a bit crap? I recall a man never seen without a hat for many years, he accepts his baldiness, mediocre music prevails...

Whereas had he done a Springsteen and developed a "preceding" hairline as people of this parish have put it, surely the music would have been better? It's a tightrope and no mistaking...

(to the tune of Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves)

"Thatches, wigs and weaves!
We see them on the heads of the celebs,
we call them thatches, wigs and weaves..."

Not that she's bald or anything, but her wigs are more impressive than her real hair.

that about 25% of men start to go bald BEFORE the age of 20, and something close to 1 in 4 by age 30. Put any middle-aged indie band in a room, however, and their ability to defeat the odds seems laughable ( I think Primal Scream would be muscially superior if they were follically-challenged).

It's the same in Hollywood; it's all boyish hairlines, with baldness almost unheard of for a leading actor.

See the great mans film on black womens obsession with wigs and hair weaves. Being quite bald and grey on what is left the question is well past the asking. I could never think of a situation when I would want some one elses hair stuck tight to my, now sweating; scalp. Young man, just shave your nut and be done with it!

A pretty good one, I think.

I seem to remember that the NME brought up the subject of the wig in an interview, and he went off in a monster huff.

A friend of mine lost all his hair overnight aged 23 owing to the shock of the loss of his 6 month old daughter and serious injury to her mother.

He just didn't feel ready to be completely bald - he'd had very thick hair and lots of it - so bought a wig. A few years later, it just looked dated and he noticed people were starting to notice it was a wig. Ten years later, it looked ludicrously out-of-date. None of us felt we could tell him: a) he was a friend and b) we knew the trauma behind it.

Eventually a friend managed to persuade him to update it more regularly. About two years ago (now he is in his early 40s) he decided to eschew it entirely. But it was a fairly dramatic thing to do. People who didn't know it was a wig (or why he wore one) asked questions and he had to turn up at work one Monday without any hair at all. Even I was a bit shaken when I saw him, and I'd been one of the few that had seen him without a wig when it first happened.

Sorry to sound a bit serious and po-faced, but it isn't always just about vanity. I imagine a similar thing would happen with children and adults who lose all their hair through trauma, accident or illness.

PS To get back to the subject, Gary Numan's weave/wig was horrendous

this is what I'm aiming for

Laydeez n' gennilmn - I give you Mr. Clockwork Orange, King of the Combover, Anthony Burgess!

apparently only accepted his baldeeheededness in public after Spitting Image kept going on about his rug

Noel Gallagher?

I snapped this cracker in the queue for the Table Mountain cable-car. The blurry hair in the forefront belongs to my wife, whom I was miming taking a photo of.

In a previous job, I put Control Systems into Ravenscraig Steelworks. One night I had worked till 7 so I had a 40 minute wait for a train home. I went into the Station Bar for a pint. There was a bloke who looked vaguely familiar looking over at me. I couldn't place him, but gave him a nod.

I only recognised him when he came over and lifted his wig momentarily. "I don't wear the wig up the 'Craig, too hot with the hard hats and they ruin a wig, so they do. What you doin' in here?"

He wore a wig as an optional accessory, like a scarf.

When she got a wig, I recall it as the only occasion when a school full of quite often nasty kids collectively said nothing.

My own pattern baldness started when I was fifteen. Because I also had a beard and a very deep voice I'd say the only reason I wasn't picked on was that I was too useful getting everyone's booze at the weekend. I have to say though, it took years for me to get my confidence up. Teenage angst and male pattern baldness is a rotten combination.

...to encompass the "third way" much beloved of certain mature-in-years minstrels - the (almost casually) provocative hat?

Be it baseball cap or beret, in gentlemen of a certain age it prompts all sorts of 'well are they?..or aren't they?'-centred enquiries.

Due to the near impossibility of establishing with any certainty the particular state-of-matters enjoyed by such personages (at least without requisite 'back-stage access') may I suggest the application of the term "Schrödinger's Hat" to cover such examples of follicular indeterminacy...?

To start the ball rolling...[whispers]...Richard Thompson...*runs away*...

in revisiting the rock combovers thread.

It's £84 a pop. But does it work? Anyone know? Though I'm not bald my hair is thinner than it was and I'd quite like to hang onto it.

Celebrity baldie: Maxwell Caulfield. As a coot by all accounts.

increased her rates because she said I had 'too much hair'.

I appreciate many people on the board will have little sympathy for me.