The Face Magazine September 1996 No 96 The Charlatans Tim Burgess SKU 1543

Original The Face Magazine, September 1996, Issue No. 96, featuring The Charlatans as the major cover story during one of the most important periods of the band's career.

The striking red cover features Tim Burgess prominently, with the large CHARLATANS headline and the quote:

“We’ve lost our mate. There will be no change. We are rock.”

The issue came shortly after the death of Charlatans keyboard player Rob Collins, making the accompanying feature particularly significant for fans and collectors of the band and 1990s British music culture.

This is a substantial mid-1990s issue of The Face, combining music, fashion, film, art and contemporary youth culture.

Main Features & Contents

The photographed contents page confirms a particularly strong selection of features:

• The Charlatans – major feature beginning on page 72, discussing the band following the death of Rob Collins, with material relating to friendship, music, love and loss.
• Fiona Apple – feature/interview on page 102 covering the then-young singer-songwriter during the early part of her career.
• Fashion: Fancy – East of Hoxton Square fashion feature with photography by John Akehurst.
• Fashion: L’Amour Fou – fashion editorial photographed by Lamsweerde Matadin and styled by Nancy Rohde.
• Route 96 – road-trip style feature following Kerouac's route across America, but undertaken in a Japanese people carrier.
• Sky Walker – feature exploring the vertical surfaces of the city.
• Disaster Movies – a major piece examining the revival of large-scale disaster cinema.
• Fashion: Repulsion – fashion feature influenced by Repulsion, The Day of the Jackal and Barry Lyndon.
• Weird Science – article exploring questions surrounding modern science and biology.
• Body Bowling – feature linked to Wayne's World.
• Shirley Manson / Garbage – substantial piece on Shirley Manson, discussing Garbage's lead singer and aspects of her career and personal life.
• Material World – coverage tied to the magazine's Face Fashion Awards.
• Vivienne Westwood – fashion feature examining the designer's menswear ideas.
• Quake – feature on the landmark id Software computer game.
• Mark Morrison – article concerning the singer's legal troubles and music career.

Additional Music, Film & Culture Coverage

The issue also carries material relating to numerous major 1990s names and subjects, including:

Jamiroquai, Pet Shop Boys, Garbage, Faze Action, Demi Moore, Alien artwork, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Rush, Underworld, Andrea, Wong Kar-Wai, Fallen Angels, David LaChapelle, David Cronenberg, Ashley Beedle and others.

This breadth of material makes the issue particularly representative of The Face's distinctive 1990s mix of Britpop, club culture, cinema, fashion, photography and contemporary art.

Cover

The front cover is dominated by a close-up portrait of Tim Burgess of The Charlatans, photographed against a vivid red/orange background.

Other cover lines include:

• “Is Liam's Beard Reverd?” – connected with the Face Fashion Awards.
• “Falling Down! – The Return of the Disaster Movie”
• Mark Morrison – “Murder He Wrote” / Jailhouse Blues
• Alien Art
• Jamiroquai
• Demi Moore
• Garbage
• Faze Action

The cover photography is credited to Donald Milne.

Condition

Pre-owned vintage condition with visible age and handling wear.

From the supplied photographs, the following can be seen:

• Noticeable surface rubbing and scratching across the front cover.
• Several visible creases, particularly across the upper-right area of the front cover.
• A long diagonal crease/scratch is visible around the top-right section.
• Spine wear and rubbing, with small areas of colour loss.
• General edge and corner wear, particularly along the lower edge and spine corners.
• Some minor marks and small scratches across the glossy cover surface.
• Slight handling wear and waviness to some page edges.
• Interior pages shown appear bright, colourful and generally well preserved.
• Binding appears intact in the photographs.
• Rear cover has visible surface wear and handling marks consistent with age.
• No major missing sections, large tears or writing are obvious from the supplied images.

Overall, this presents as a well-used but solid vintage copy, with the exterior showing considerably more wear than the photographed interior pages. Please study all photographs carefully for the best assessment of condition.

Important – Original Extras

Any CDs, supplements, postcards, promotional inserts, stickers, free gifts or other items that may originally have accompanied this magazine are no longer included unless specifically shown in the photographs.

Packaging

UK orders: Magazine will be securely sent in a hardback envelope.

International orders: Magazine will be securely packed in a cardboard mail-size box for additional protection during transit.

SKU: 1543