The Face Vol. 2 No. 2
November 1988 · Neneh Cherry by Eddie Monsoon · Judy Blame / Rifat Ozbek · 'Buffalo Stance' breakthrough
Original The Face Volume 2 Number 2, November 1988, with vividly smiling Neneh Cherry front-cover photograph by Eddie Monsoon, styling by Judy Blame and clothing credited to Rifat Ozbek. The magazine praises her new 'Buffalo Stance' as its single of the year before the record's first Official UK Singles Chart appearance in December.
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- The Face
- Condition
- Very Good overall, provisional external photographic assessment; strong original cover colour and legibility with light spine/edge/corner wear and minor surface handling.
- Completeness
- Complete under the owner's standing TMR magazine-completeness instruction unless otherwise stated. Full issue supplied as one original object, photographed front cover, original back advertisement and contents/masthead page; not opened and collated page by page. No originally issued detached insert, supplement, promotional extra or missing pages evidenced.
- Date
- November 1988 (cover date, verified on original)
Catalogue note
Original The Face Volume 2 Number 2, November 1988, with vividly smiling Neneh Cherry front-cover photograph by Eddie Monsoon, styling by Judy Blame and clothing credited to Rifat Ozbek. The magazine praises her new 'Buffalo Stance' as its single of the year before the record's first Official UK Singles Chart appearance in December. A contemporaneous 1989 Los Angeles Times report says Virgin Records mailed more than 300 copies of this very issue to US radio programmers and critics, establishing the physical cover's real promotional role. Contents range from Cameo and Teddy Riley's emergent New Jack Swing, Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez's Love and Rockets, Nick Cave by Nick Kent, Glasgow scooter culture and 1988 UK clubbing to Clint Eastwood's Charlie Parker biopic Bird. Striking late-1980s red masthead and blue vertical graphics sit opposite a full-page Bacardi Rum advertisement. A new, physically distinct issue in TMR between existing Volume 2 Nos. 1 and 4.
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