page_title: Liberty spikes
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Liberty spikes / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: this is a photo of a guy with liberty spikes
context_page_description: Liberty spikes is styling hair in long, thick, upright spikes. The style, now associated with the punk subculture, is so named because of the resemblance to the diadem crown worn by the Statue of Liberty, itself inspired by the Roman goddess Libertas and god Sol Invictus.
context_section_description: Irish berserker Slaine Mac Roth is well known for his spiked black hair.
  Various anime heroes have liberty spikes, including Yugi Mutou from Yu-Gi-Oh!, Son Goku from Dragon Ball, Vash the Stampede from Trigun, Kenpachi from Bleach and Brock from Pokémon.
  In Dune the villain Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen (portrayed by Sting) has spiky orange hair.
  Salvador Dali in the 1950s made a spiky hairstyle for a model.
  David Bowie in the 1970s.
  Sid Vicious in the late 1970s.
  Johnny Rotten in the late 1970s.
  GBH (band) in the 1980s and nowadays.
  Billy Idol in the 1980s.
  Radio DJ Pat Sharp.
  Matthew Bellamy around 2001.
  Alan Barton of British pop group Black Lace.
  Brad Pitt in 1995, later somewhere around the late 1990s and early 2000s, then again from 2005–09.
  David Beckham in the early 2000s.
  Thom Yorke in 1995-96, then again in 2003–04.
  Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda, Dave Farrell, and Joe Hahn from the American rock group Linkin Park.
  Benji Madden from American pop punk group Good Charlotte.
  Gareth Gates in 2002–03.
  Tech N9ne was known for his red liberty spikes in the early 2000s.
  Jimmy Urine was known to sport the liberty spikes in the early 2000s for the band Mindless Self Indulgence.
  Brody Dalle was known to have liberty spikes during her time in the band The Distillers.
  Mikhail Gorsheniov in the late 2000s.
caption: Brooklyn Punk with liberty spikes
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