This week's Readers' Poll examines a curious little subculture in the music world: beards. They've have given some artists an identity (Jerry Garcia's ever-present face mane, for example) and allowed others to update their look (like George Harrison's mercurial image throughout the '70s and '80s).
From the meticulous to the wildly unkempt, take a look below at what readers chose as the best beards in music history…
