Fact #162439
When:
Short story:
The first issue of UK youth-style bible The Face is published.
Full article:
Nick Logan : I’m looking for the kids who participate in the music scene. The ones who have a good time rather than just sit at home listening to the hifi. I’m a fan and I know the excitement of being caught up with something new.
I enjoy having my finger right on the pulse. It’s so easy to lose touch. I remember when I started at NME, The Monkees were on every cover and a feature would mean interviewing Davy Jones’s butler. I hated them. Everyone was waiting for something else to come along. It was up to every writer to find his own bands to write about but there was such a lull. Then I got caught up with people like Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and Marc Bolan. They were the underground then. After I became editor in ’73 we went through that dull period when the charts were ruled by all those tax exiles but punk proved enjoyable.
I am determined to do the kind of music I like whatever marketing people say. When punk went out people were still fascinated by it. I’d jack it in if readers wanted more Abba. What The Face does is combine racy copy with a lot of photography – people do underestimate the power of good pictures. I’m still following my own feelings and I’ve put the Specials on the cover because they’ve given me a lot of pleasure over the past year. It’s groups like them who inspire me to sweat out a magazine.
(Source : interview in the Evening Standard, May 1, 1980)
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I enjoy having my finger right on the pulse. It’s so easy to lose touch. I remember when I started at NME, The Monkees were on every cover and a feature would mean interviewing Davy Jones’s butler. I hated them. Everyone was waiting for something else to come along. It was up to every writer to find his own bands to write about but there was such a lull. Then I got caught up with people like Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and Marc Bolan. They were the underground then. After I became editor in ’73 we went through that dull period when the charts were ruled by all those tax exiles but punk proved enjoyable.
I am determined to do the kind of music I like whatever marketing people say. When punk went out people were still fascinated by it. I’d jack it in if readers wanted more Abba. What The Face does is combine racy copy with a lot of photography – people do underestimate the power of good pictures. I’m still following my own feelings and I’ve put the Specials on the cover because they’ve given me a lot of pleasure over the past year. It’s groups like them who inspire me to sweat out a magazine.
(Source : interview in the Evening Standard, May 1, 1980)