The Face No. 6
The B-52's — Some Enchanted Evening / Grace Jones / The Clash / Madness / Spandau Ballet
Sixth issue of The Face, published October 1980, with four-fifths of The B-52's on the cover in a Lynn Goldsmith photograph. Features include Grace Jones, The Clash, Madness, Spandau Ballet, Bow Wow Wow, Hugh Cornwell, Burning Spear, Steve Strange and John Cooper Clarke.
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- The Face
- Condition
- Very Good−
- Completeness
- Complete — all pages present.
- Date
- October 1980
Catalogue note
Sixth issue of The Face, published October 1980, with four-fifths of The B-52's on the cover in a Lynn Goldsmith photograph. Features include Grace Jones, The Clash, Madness, Spandau Ballet, Bow Wow Wow, Hugh Cornwell, Burning Spear, Steve Strange and John Cooper Clarke. The issue is a compact first-year record of the magazine's emerging synthesis of post-punk, new wave, reggae, New Romantic style, photography and fashion-conscious music journalism.
Why this object matters
Goldsmith’s B-52’s cover and the Grace Jones/Burning Spear/Spandau mix preserve a distinctive first-year musical and visual range. Retain outstanding 8.8 importance rather than infer a landmark from the issue’s early number alone.
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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