The Face No. 81
Meet the Brit Pack — Tim Roth & Paul McGann / 1986: The Year in Review
The January 1987 issue of The Face, No. 81, built around a “Meet the Brit Pack” cover featuring Tim Roth and Paul McGann and naming Gary Oldman, Spencer Leigh, Bruce Payne and Colin Firth. The issue also includes a 1986 year-in-review package, Janet Jackson, a memorial feature on Trojan, and an Art of Noise / ZTT advertisement on the back cover, making it a dense record of late-1980s British film, music, style and magazine culture.
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- The Face
- Condition
- Good to Very Good — visibly handled but sound, with moderate cover rubbing, edge and corner wear, surface marks and light internal age-related spotting/staining.
- Completeness
- Complete — all pages present.
- Date
- January 1987
Catalogue note
The January 1987 issue of The Face, No. 81, built around a “Meet the Brit Pack” cover featuring Tim Roth and Paul McGann and naming Gary Oldman, Spencer Leigh, Bruce Payne and Colin Firth. The issue also includes a 1986 year-in-review package, Janet Jackson, a memorial feature on Trojan, and an Art of Noise / ZTT advertisement on the back cover, making it a dense record of late-1980s British film, music, style and magazine culture.
Why this object matters
The Brit Pack grouping and Trojan memorial record both emerging British cinema and a less durable club-cultural memory. That combination gives this complete year-review issue stronger documentary value than a conventional celebrity cover.
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Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 8.7 / 10.
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