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 contributions to ...

British folk singer Donovan had a steady stream of hits in the final years of the 1960s. Released in 1966, “Sunshine Superman” and “Mellow Yellow” were but a warm-up for a three-year period that would ...

In the early 1970s, Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan wrote and recorded songs for the English version of Italian director Franco Zeffirelli’s film “Brother Sun, Sister Moon,” about the early years ...

Donovan’s “Sunshine Superman” was one of the best songs of the British Invasion that wasn’t by The Beatles. It’s a perfect mix of psychedelia, pop, the avant-garde, and the mainstream. During an ...

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One of the chief pleasures of James Mangold’s acclaimed new Bob Dylan film biography “A Complete Unknown” comes from the assistance it provides to old-timers often trying, usually failing, to explain ...