Hipsters - nothing new

He Died in the 60s That might give them a clue

 

Guess no one knows Steve, i woudn't have recognized him but i got a bit of help!

 

Didn't know Steve..i had to cheat!!

 

Ah, the Diaries student bedsits poster boy. The eyes give it away if I am not wrong. Not that I go in for man-crushes, but with all that charisma he could have been a film star if he'd taken a different route on his Norton.

 

Did not know, he had a Norton...

 

Ché Guevera ?

 

I didn't know - I also had to cheat,

 

Yeah, in the Motorcycle Diaries they were on a pre-War (don't mention the War) 500cc Norton, so a big one for the early 50's. My Dad and uncles rode big Nortons pre and post-War, but as far as I know they weren't revolutionaries.

 

Okay, try again, but looks so familiar. Is the assumption he's a well-known motorcyclist correct, because it's a m/bike forum, or is that red-herring?

 

Stalin?

 

Google images is getting mixed up..i thought it was Che too!!..or rather google did!

 

His name is Joseph Jugasvili, better known as Josef Stalin.

 

I did think Stalin and asked Auntie Google, but 60's demise threw me. I knew I'd seen those eyes before. #1 daughter did her dissertation on Stalin-era Soviet iconoclasm, which I did a fair bit of wordsmithing and editing on, so may even have seen that same image. Give the old b@$$t@rd tyrant his due, he was a handsome geezer as a young lad. Less so in his Wild One years hanging out with Brando.