The Face No. 56
Splash Out! — Paul Rutherford / Frankie Goes to Hollywood
December 1984 issue of The Face, No. 56, with Frankie Goes to Hollywood member Paul Rutherford on the cover beneath the headline 'splash out!' and 'the taming of FRANKIE'.
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- The Face
- Condition
- Good+ / Very Good−
- Completeness
- Complete — all pages present.
- Date
- December 1984
Catalogue note
December 1984 issue of The Face, No. 56, with Frankie Goes to Hollywood member Paul Rutherford on the cover beneath the headline 'splash out!' and 'the taming of FRANKIE'. The issue documents a dense cross-section of late-1984 British and transatlantic visual culture, including Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Boy George, John Lydon with Afrika Bambaataa, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Bailey, Anthony Burgess, Versace, modern Japan and football. The back cover is a period ZTT advertisement for 'The Power of Love', the third Frankie Goes to Hollywood single, sung by Holly Johnson.
Why this object matters
The Frankie/ZTT publication moment intersects with Basquiat, Lydon/Bambaataa and fashion coverage. This unusually dense original exchange between pop provocation, art and music supports outstanding 8.9 importance without claiming a single foundational debut.
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: 8.9 / 10.
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