The Face magazine No 98 June 1988 

MAD HOUSE ...... 10

Prince’s “Black Album” doesn’t officially exist. We found a copy in

Germany that’s been sold to a British collector for £12,000

PUBLIC HOUSE ...... 28

April Fool’s Day came early for the citizens of East Berlin. How

glasnost was smuggled into the GDR

GREEN HOUSE ..................... 30

In which Scritti’s main man dismisses accusations of Thatcherism,

discusses metaphysics and refuses to forget Derrida

GOD'S HOUSE ............................ 36

Contemporary stations of the cloth. Fashion by Marc Lebon and Jitt

Gill from the best-selling book

HAUNTED HOUSE .................................. 46

Vampire actor Bill Paxton also fronts a “hickory-smoked, techno-

funk” band. A genuine genre-free All-American boy

LIGHT HOUSE .................................... 48

Public artist Krysztof Wodiczko’s night-time projections onto civic

monuments and buildings illuminate the functions behind the

facades

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT ..........................52

After a long period in space, George Clinton is back at the helm of

the Mothership and ready to explore new frontiers — with a little

help from royalty

WHITE HOUSE .............................56

Aids Militants: NY's Aids Coalition To Unleash Power invades Wall

St to protest against US Government inertia

COUNCIL HOUSE Qc .......................... 62

With a new single and LP, the Style Council come out of the

wardrobe demanding to be taken as seriously as they take

themselves

MAISONETTE ...................................... 70

The new mood of Parisian couture captured by Stephane

Sednaoui and Elizabeth Diian

Considered upstart and sacriligious in its native Algeria, Rai music’s

blend of sensuous melancholy and sexual innuendo is capturing

Western ears and record company budgets

NOT HOUSE AT ALL............. 96

Last year DJ Scott La Rock and his rapper KRS1 had a dream.

Now Scott is dead and it’s up to KRS to take the plan to its second

stage

The Face was a very popular British music, fashion and culture magazine that was launched in May 1980 by Nick Logan who had also previously created the teenage pop magazine Smash Hits, and had been an editor at the New Musical Express (NME) in the 1970s. Some people associated with The Face over the years were designer and typographer Neville Brody (Art Director, 198186), creative director Lee Swillingham (Art Director 1993-1999), Craig Tilford (Art Directior 1999-2002), Graham Rounthwaite (Art Director 2002-2003), Julie Burchill, Tony Parsons, photographers Juergen Teller, David Sims and writers including Jon Savage, Fiona Russell Powell and James Truman and others.