Still, when I was touring with The Rolling Stones standing on stage in auditoriums filled with 20,000 ecstatic longhairs, it was pretty easy to feel that the polarization over lifestyle had been laid to rest, and that we had ”won.” I remember seeing the changes in small things. Returning from England while watching an American football game on television I noticed with astonishment and some pleasure the quarterback’s long hair emerging from underneath his helmet. To a boy who had grown up in the Fifties, when the male teen ideal was the close-cropped, muscular jock, this augured something, perhaps a softening of the rigid archetypes of the Fifties. FROM AN AMERICAN STORY
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