Mags power! Booze and fisticuffs with the music press – in pictures

The Face, No 7, November 1980

‘A turning point for Nick Logan’s six month-old style bible arrived with this issue’s eight-page feature flagged The Cult With No Name, in which Robert Elms surveyed the peacock art students, wannabe fashion designers, struggling musicians and dandy ne’er-do-wells emerging from London’s The Blitz nightspot to create New Romantic. Soon, many of those featured – including Boy George, Marilyn, Spandau Ballet, Sade and Steve Strange – became chart-topping superstars, and The Face’s position as the most influential magazine of the decade was sealed’