The Face No. 66
Hair’em Scare’em — Is There a Cure for Robert Smith?
October 1985 issue of The Face, No. 66, with Robert Smith of The Cure photographed in extreme close-up by Derek Ridgers. The cover’s “Hair’em Scare’em” line turns Smith’s already distinctive visual identity into the issue’s graphic subject.
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- The Face
- Condition
- Good+ / VG−
- Completeness
- Complete — all pages present.
- Date
- October 1985
Catalogue note
October 1985 issue of The Face, No. 66, with Robert Smith of The Cure photographed in extreme close-up by Derek Ridgers. The cover’s “Hair’em Scare’em” line turns Smith’s already distinctive visual identity into the issue’s graphic subject. Inside, the issue ranges across Robert Smith, Carl Lewis, Barry Humphries, Daryl Hall, ecstasy, Ken Russell, fashion and American wrestling, capturing The Face at a point where music, style, design and wider youth-cultural reporting were being deliberately collapsed into one editorial object.
Why this object matters
Ridgers’s extreme-close-up Smith cover and contemporary ecstasy coverage combine goth visual identity with emerging nightlife reporting. This specific original convergence gives the complete issue outstanding 8.8 relevance across TMR’s music and club holdings.
Evidence limits: No new physical inspection or collation was performed. Copy-specific conclusions remain limited to the retained catalogue and accession evidence.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 8.8 / 10.
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