The Style Council: The Singular Adventures Of The Style Council: Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (Polydor)
David Quantick, NME, 11 March 1989
THE COVER OF The Style Council's most blatantly angry single, 'Walls Come Tumbling Down', bears not a picture of rioting or the Prime Minister on a cross, but a photo of Mick Talbot wearing make-up and trying to look like Oscar Wilde's mate Bosie.
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