The Whole Shebang Minute 46: When Mandy Met Brian

In Minute 46 of The Whole Shebang, Mike and Jenny talk about the many guises of David Bowie and how other artists have succeeded or failed in that kind of compulsive reinvention, our flashback to New Year’s Eve 1969 and the exterior of the Sombrero Club, Brian’s late hippie look and the secret origin of Mandy’s afghan coat, David and Angie’s swapping clothes and looks, the ten-shilling cover charge at the Sombrero and Mike’s nerding out about the decimalization of British currency in 1971, the post-Christmas interior of the Sombrero and the legacy of its lighted dance floor, the fin-de-décennie aesthetic of this scene and its analogue in the fin-de-siècle aesthetic of Oscar Wilde’s era, when decades actually begin and end, and a lot of cheeky banter about Mike’s freakishly-large head.

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