The Glasgow-born troubadour Donovan's mission was “to bring poetic vision to popular music” and he managed that superbly with his third ...

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Donovan said that this turn of events left him “miserable but undeterred. Back in London, in the early fall of ’65, I lived above the flat of my manager, Ashley Kozak. Missing Linda, I began to write ...

He may have had a point. Donovan had a string of hits in the mid-to-late 1960s, including “Sunshine Superman,” “Hurdy Gurdy Man,” “Atlantis,” “Mellow Yellow,” and “Jennifer ...

The May 14 Donovan concert is set to be held at Rome’s Teatro Manzoni, where the mellifluous folk-rock artist will play his other 1960s hits including “Sunshine Superman,” “Hurdy Gurdy Man ...

Donovan’s ‘Season of the Witch’ presaged ... The song’s parent album, Sunshine Superman, reached No. 25 and charted for seven weeks. Meanwhile, “Sunshine Superman” hit No. 2 and ...

and “Sunshine Superman” peaked at No. 2 and charted for 11 weeks. In 1989, the song peaked at No. 100 for one week. “Season of the Witch” is an eerie song — and Donovan thinks it was ...

Hiding somewhere between psychedelic rock and folk music, freak folk is an oft-overlooked genre of the 1960s and 1970s that we believe is worth revisiting. Freak folk was certainly a byproduct of ...

(Bonus points for staying with our genre as the album this track hails from is titled Sunshine Superman.) The 1967 jam has a big pop culture footprint to boot. Perhaps one of the essential ...

“Sunshine Superman” was released in the U.S. in July of 1966. It was the title track of Donovan’s third studio album, which arrived stateside in August 26 of the same year. Jimmy ...

So, when Donovan came to record his defining track ‘Sunshine Superman’ in 1965, The Beatles were in the very next room working on Rubber Soul. “Mickie Most, my producer, asked, ‘What do you want on it ...

On the other side, there is his more psychedelic streak as he experimented further on ‘Sunshine Superman’ or ‘Season Of The Witch’. But when it comes to one of his biggest works, it falls into the ...