John Button was spending the quiet retirement of a sea fisherman in the little harbor town of Rye, on the beaches of the Channel, remembering the blessed times when, work done, he would go get drunk in Boulogne (before getting into a fight with some French sailor and invariably ending the night in jail!). The beautiful life! And then one day, our man saw a photographer arriving, and his life changed. Star of the cover of the singles compilation and only hero of the newly filmed video for "Killing An Arab" (at the time the song came out, Robert Smith and his men didn't have the money to film it), John Button has become the sixth face of The Cure, despite himself, by chance. He doesn't complain: "If I can help these youngsters break through, after all, why not..." As far as the group's music, he promised that once he'll have bought a new player, he would listen to the cassette of "The Head On The Door", out of curiosity, to see... John Button has become a star and continues to live a quiet retirement, on the Rye beach. - P.B.