Members of Led Zeppelin helped create Donovan’s “Hurdy Gurdy Man” in the studio. The tune paved the way for a lot of the band’s later work. Donovan himself argued that Jimmy Page’s ...

As many pointed out in the comments, this blurs the line between a guitar and a hurdy gurdy.

If you’ve never heard a hurdy-gurdy before, you’re in for a treat. Not many people have, since they’re instruments which are uncommon outside of some eastern European communities.

What can you tell us about the 1968 sessions for ‘Hurdy Gurdy Man’? I got to know Jimmy a little bit later [in the early 1980s], when he lived near Windsor, in the house he bought, twice ...