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

Donovan is well-known as one of the most influential folk-rock musicians of all time, but his 1968 album, The Hurdy Gurdy Man, might have played a pivotal role in one of the greatest heavy rock ...

“I saw Donovan at Carnegie Hall years ago. I was so bummed. He played his songs faster, didn’t use that vocal effect. I was let down.” While there was the occasional dip into psychedelia on tracks ...

In 1968, Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan released Hurdy Gurdy Man – the influential title track of his The Hurdy Gurdy Man album from the same year, which featured the contributions of a ...

Whenever I go to his concerts we play an acoustic version of Hurdy Gurdy Man and he plays his wild violin. I saw him at [London club] the Bag O’Nails. Everyone was there: the Stones, The Beatles ...

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 ...

Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan is celebrating the 60th anniversary ... 1960s hits including “Sunshine Superman,” “Hurdy Gurdy Man,” “Colours” and “Mellow Yellow.” ...

For example, Donovan’s “Season of the Witch ... which was a totally unsocialist way of looking at things,” the “Hurdy Gurdy Man” singer opined. “They thought the masses were just ...

One of the most popular classic rock songs for the Halloween season is Donovan’s “Season of the Witch.” The “Hurdy Gurdy Man” singer once said the track was “prophetic.” When asked ...

One of these people was Donovan, who was keen on using power chords in his song ‘Hurdy Gurdy Man’. As a fan of the sound of the chord, he was subsequently a fan of Hendrix, so he asked for his help ...