 A similar empathy extended to the artists that McGowan interviewed.Donovan, launched in 1965 by his appearances on "RSG", recalled McGowan as the "young Mary Quant-look hostess" (Quant being the leading British proponent of the mini-skirt, which McGowan helped popularise), with whom he developed an "easy-going" style of on-screen conversation.In the words of Dominic Sandbrook, a social historian