As it turns out, even the most effortlessly cool musicians - the ones you had up on your bedroom wall, and whose hair and clothes you tried and failed to pull off - had something of a rough puberty.
Once you become a household name, you can head into the attic and destroy all photographic evidence that you were ever a teenager - but there's one photo you can't get rid of. Because it was sent out to everyone you went to school with. Here's 16 musician's brilliant yearbook photos.
Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain Year Book Photo pic.twitter.com/7SaAUuygl7
— IG: PromoMusikIndie (@Promosi_Indie) May 14, 2015
Iggy Azalea (FKA Amethyst Kelly)
Iggy Azalea’s Adorable High School Yearbook Photos Just Went Viral - http://t.co/VnTjgdPEme pic.twitter.com/dFATBORrce
— Gates Digital Media (@GatesDigital) September 11, 2014
Gwen Stefani
GWEN STEFANI'S HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR YEARBOOK PHOTO pic.twitter.com/QeXBolH2
— Alex Youngblood (@KATYCATSAREUS) October 20, 2012
Bruce Springsteen
Marilyn Manson (FKA Brian Warner)
This was Marilyn Manson in his yearbook picture. pic.twitter.com/Xsa6hyhNb7
— Joy Of Satan (@JoyOfSatan_666) June 4, 2013
Kanye West
kanye west yearbook picture got him looking like the deez nuts dude pic.twitter.com/bncUldkXmC
— #TG Teridax OTF (@Teridax) April 21, 2016
She & Him’s Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Deschanel yearbook photo :3 pic.twitter.com/YITaTUPG86
— Supertramp (@frankenburton) September 12, 2013
Snoop Dogg
John Mayer
John Mayer got his yearbook photo taken. Will you? Portraits start next week! 10am-2pm by the Bookstore. pic.twitter.com/IRFEfPOPat
— Tower Yearbook (@NorthwestTower) September 21, 2015
Madonna
Yearbook picture Madonna #Madonna pic.twitter.com/fTAk9Gs7Pg
— TravelistaJennyfer (@travelistajenny) June 5, 2014
Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler
Steven Tyler Aerosmith year book photo pic.twitter.com/YCtqVffZSn
— IG: PromoMusikIndie (@Promosi_Indie) May 14, 2015
Christina Aguilera
Eminem
Eminem's yearbook picture. pic.twitter.com/NdPMlCiz4Q
— No F#@king Way! (@FactsStatsPlus) November 25, 2015
Beyonce
Beyoncé from the #classof97'! #yearbook #myyo951 #uforia pic.twitter.com/GsIRzzktOP
— Yo! 95.1 (@myyo951) March 22, 2016
Katy Perry (FKA Katheryn Hudson)
@katyperry one of my friends said he went to Brookside with you. He sent me this pic from his yearbook. Is it true? pic.twitter.com/mIgeaAJSm4
— Erika Bloom (@Evigil84) August 13, 2014
Kiss’ Gene Simmons (FKA Chaim Witz)
Rockstar Yearbook Gene Simmons (#Kiss ) pic.twitter.com/svrB9Qq9f6
— El Baúl (@L_Baul) May 24, 2015