''Ready Steady Go!''
''Ready Steady Go!'' (RSG) was first broadcast in August 1963, coinciding with the rise ofThe show's most celebrated presenter, McGowan was the same age as the national audience; she wore all the latest trendy shifts and mini-dresses; and she spoke with an earnest, ceaseless barrage of teenage slang, praising whatever was 'fab' or 'smashing', and damning all that was 'square' or 'out'. 'The atmosphere', one observer wrote later, 'was that of aMcGowan was an early patron ofKing's Road King's Road or Kings Road (or sometimes the King's Road, especially when it was the king's private road until 1830, or as a colloquialism by middle/upper class London residents), is a major street stretching through Chelsea and Fulham, both ...party where the performers themselves had only just chanced to drop by'.
After ''Ready Steady Go!''
Once RSG had ended, McGowan's star began to wane. By way of illustration, ''ichfieldwas ... a great one for persuading people to join in, even if the outcome was not always the one they expected. In the 1960s he took a series of group portraits for ''Queen'' magazine supposedly documenting the movers and shakers of the time – except that some, such asHowever, in 1978, McGowan was the subject of a tribute: the song "Ready Steady Go" by the English bandJonathan Aitken Jonathan William Patrick Aitken (born 30 August 1942) is a British author, Church of England priest, former prisoner and former Conservative Party politician. Beginning his career in journalism, he was elected to Parliament in 1974 (serving un ...and Cathy McGowan, were deemed not to be "in", and were labelled as "out" in the magazine. But Lichfield, with his impeccable manners, refused to upset his subjects by letting them know that in advance.
Later work
McGowan continued in journalism and broadcasting. She was a board member of London'sFamily
In 1970, McGowan married actorReferences
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