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 ...

Equipped with his guitar, a few new songs and several of his older ones, singer-songwriter Donovan Leitch–known simply as Donovan–is on the road again. His timing is good. The over-30 f… ...

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 ...

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 ...

3. “Catch the Wind” “Catch the Wind” is the track that made Donovan’s name. It was not only his breakthrough song, but it was also one of the first songs he ever wrote.

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 ...

O'Donovan set the unfinished song aside for nearly a decade. Then the Irish Arts Center in New York City commissioned her to write something for its Grásta series, ...

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 ...

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… ...