Find out about Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy Man, its lyrics, meaning, similar songs, and the lasting influence it had on psychedelic music.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...