billy preston or sly???

The Fly, ssssssssssssssssssss

ANGELA DAVIS AND JACKIE JACKSON.

The Sylvers

LOL Sugar with the Couvasier. I know I probably spelled it wrong.

Count Billy Preston among the entertainers with the Super Afro

Angela Davis by far, that thing was legendary. Although Billy Prestons was huge but a wig. I think those dudes in the Sylvers had huge afros too. Some of those Soul Train dancers had huge ones too (Watch any pre 1980 soul train line video).

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Even here in NZ, many Maori and Pacific Island people had huge ass afros too back in the day, My dad had a huge afro and we used to put all sort of shit in it like lolly papers and ice cream sticks and things and he would barely notice it and then shake his hair and all this shit would fly out of it and we would be laughing.

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Just about every funk group in the 70s had at least one cat with a huge afro in it and of course one with corn rows.

Paul Mitchell definitely - goddamn

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70s Prince had a big one too

A lot of these light skinned brothers loved the huge afros as they reaffirmed their blackness. I think the unsung episode on De Barge (Half Black, they had a white father), one of the Debarges was mentioing how they teased the heck out of their afros, so the Black kids would hang out with them, as being light skinned, they were dereided by some other pupils and of course the white kids wanted nothing to do with them either. To me Paul Mitchell looks nearly white.

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Not back in the day, but current. This woman has an afro 4 foot 5 inches round, and I love the irony, the African American co anchor has a blonde weave!

Rock’s Greatest Afros
by Dave Lifton • September 14, 2018 • Ultimate Classic Rock

In celebration of World Afro Day on Sept. 15, we're taking a look at some of the rock stars who have sported the look over the years.

The Afro first became popular in the late '60s and '70s, when African Americans began growing out their hair, rather than straightening it or keeping it short, as part of the "Black Is Beautiful" movement that challenged conventional standards of beauty. The look was picked up by many of the biggest African-American musicians, activists, celebrities and athletes of the day, and it became both a fashion statement and a powerful expression of black pride.

As Chad Dion Lassiter of the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice told Ebony, “The Afro was black beauty personified without white validation, and it did not care about critics. For many black men, it was about cool pose and hyper-masculinity in the face of police brutality and constant oppression.”

But for all its association with the black community, plenty of white musicians with deep connections to blues or jazz sported their own versions of the Afro, notably Eric Clapton during his time in Cream and Jimi Hendrix's bandmates Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding. For Rob Tyner of the MC5, it was a way of showing solidarity with their friends in the Black Panthers.

As soul and funk gave way to disco, and later hip-hop, the Afro gave way to other hairstyles. But it's had occasional revivals -- Prince had one late in his life -- and these days can be seen being sported by two members of At the Drive-In, Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, as well as longtime Lenny Kravitz guitarist Craig Ross.

Check them all out below.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Eric Clapton

Lindsey Buckingham

Neal Schon

Aretha Franklin

Phil Lynott

Diana Ross

Earth, Wind and Fire

Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones) and Billy Preston

Jeff Lynne (ELO)

Don Brewer (Grand Funk Railroad)

Lenny Kravitz and Craig Ross

Prince

Rob Tyner (MC5)

Sib Hashian (Boston)

Sly Stone

Jackson Five

Al Green

Larry Graham (Sly & the Family Stone)

The Meters

The Commodores

The Ohio Players

Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At the Drive-In)

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (At the Drive-In)

The Bar-Kays

Bernie Leadon and Don Henley (Eagles)

Betty Davis

The Brothers Johnson

The Sylvers

Baby Huey

People ask me everywhere. "Is that really all your hair?"

I just tell them "If it ain't. .. it sure don't mean that no I can't"

Cause i just don't think it's fair to judge a man by the length of his hair.

i think mick taylor is the winner...although thats not an afro