Donovan mid-’60s run of hit songs helped persuade Epic Records and Clive Davis in 1967 to back his play with an elaborate double-record set, “A Gift From a Flower to a Garden,” boldly ...

Donovan said The Beatles‘ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was like a painting or a movie. In addition, he compared it to one of his own tracks. Notably, Donovan’s song was a bigger hit ...

Quite rightly, the mood was pretty mellow at Donovan's Tuesday appearance at the 9:30 club. There were seats for most of the audience members and a comfortable amount of space for the rest.

In Boston in 2001, O’Donovan and some fellow music students started Crooked Still, a string band that offered radical rearrangements of Appalachian-rooted songs and, over the next decade of ...

Donovan explained how Zen Buddhism and a famous painter inspired his song. During a 2011 interview with Pennyblackmusic, Donovan was asked if “Wear Your Love Like Heaven” had the same meaning ...

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 ...

Meeting Donovan near Hampstead Heath in London, a place his fans will recognize as a key locale of one of his finest Swinging London ‘60s songs (“Hampstead Incident”), does absolutely ...

T he best classic rock songs often have sad backstories. For example, Donovan’s “Season of the Witch” was inspired by the dark side of the 1960s. The tune wasn’t actually a hit at the time ...

It’s a feat just for popular music to stand the test of 50 years, and even more of a feat for that music’s original performer to still be presenting it a half-century later. Some of the… ...