25 Rock Legends in Drag

While dressing in drag stays a polarizing subject, the follow of males carrying girls’s clothes has been generally accepted amongst rock stars for many years.

Some of the most important names in rock have been ballsy sufficient to placed on attire. They vary from these you’d anticipate – Elton John, Freddie Mercury, the Rolling Stones – to these you most likely wouldn’t: Ozzy (*25*), Gene Simmons, U2.

For some, dressing in drag provided a approach to categorical themselves. Others noticed it as a approach to piss off authority figures, whereas there have been additionally rockers who merely favored the best way it felt.

During a 2022 look on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash revealed he’d dressed in drag as a teen to sneak right into a bar after his pretend ID had been rejected. “I was just crushed, so I went home and I put on a bunch of makeup, put on some of my mom’s clothes,” he recalled. “I went back up there. And it was ladies’ night, that’s what it was. So I went back and I got in.”

We’ve highlighted 25 Rock Legends Who’ve Dressed in Drag beneath. For our listing, we needed to make judgment calls on rockers who put on colourful apparel and make-up, however who don’t explicitly copy the opposite intercourse. For instance, Dee Snider didn’t make the listing, regardless of his wild and fabulous fashions over time.

Honorable point out additionally goes to Ringo Starr, who wasn’t included in our listing although an animated model of himself dressed in drag for the 2014 music video for “I Wish I Was a Powerpuff Girl.”