Cathy McGowan: She is a bubbling girl, with a style like a runaway horse, and she is the mouth-piece for the great collective unconscious of British Pop. If she lengthens her skirt, right down to the knee, so will everybody. If she takes a fancy to Gregorian monastery chants, so will they. If she dyes her hair lizard-green, everybody will do that too. Cathy McGowan operates this useful early-warning system on television, and in various columns, where merchandisers take heed of her as religiously as if the Tablets of Pop were dictated to her personally on Mount Sinai.
It's no wonder, that she was known as Queen of the Mods.
(jamd, corbis, Birds of Britain)
