Baby Neil Young and his first girlfriend. Do you have pics of "before" they were rock stars?

baby Frank Zappa.

 

Jerry Garcia and Santa

 

+1. Fabulous photo

 

Sixteen year-old Keith Moon playing with his pre-Who band the Beachcombers.

 

Marty Stuart and future wife Connie Smith in 1970 when Marty was 12 and Connie was 29. Marty told his mother that day that someday he would marry Connie Smith. Happily married 21 years now. Marty's sister Jennifer on the left.

 

I like how, even as a teenager, Neil looked 45.

 

13-year old David Bowie

 

Baby Janis Joplin

 

Randy California

 

‘....And last of all, I’d like your beard’.

 

I always liked this one of baby Jimi and his mom:

 

I beg your pardon but the title says “baby Neil” and I can’t find him!

 

Maybe he just didn't want to use the word "young" twice in a sentence?

 

Baby, young, teenage, whatever, the thing is Neil Young -ironically- never looked young!

 

Maybe it's just me, but he looked like a movie star--a bit of James Dean with an air of mystery around and behind those eyes with a fun devilish grin, and you aren't sure if he'll help you fix your car, or if he'll run you over with it (or both)...
NYF

 

Here are a few of a very young Kate Bush.











More can be found at:
Rarely Seen Black and White Photos of a Young Catherine Bush Taken by Her Brother in the 1960s and 1970s ~ vintage everyday

 

Kings of Leon

 

Ahh, I would not have been able to resist calling the post "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Young."

 

Funny how little Jerry and little Frank looked a lot alike.

Little Kate looked like Hermione.

 

The handsome young man on the right is Steve Hackett. The little fella next to him is his brother John.

 

Prince Rogers Nelson

 

Well John Coltrane is as much a "rock star" or cultural icon as a jazz musician, so...U.S. Navy enlistment photo, well before any fame:



And his future employer:

 

And here's Bjork:

 

George Harrison circa 1950: