Donovan

Donovan: Hurdy Gurdy Man Rolls Into Town

Live Review by Rick McGrath, Georgia Straight, The, October 1971

TWO THINGS I found quite interesting at the Donovan Concert last Monday night. First, the Humble Minstrel of psychedelic folk music seems to be running ...

AUDIO: Donovan (2005)

Interview by Joel Selvin, Selvin On The City, KSAN 107.7, 2005

Mr Leitch looks back at his 40 years in music, from scoring hash in Goodge Street to recording with Rick Rubin, via Alice Cooper, Linda Lawrence and more.

File format: mp3 File size: 35.1mb Interview length: 38' 19"; Sound quality: ****

Donovan: I'll Quit After Two More Years

Interview by Keith Altham, NME, April 1965

GIPSY DAVE sat in Donovan's dressing room playing a strange instrument – a leg off a Queen Anne chair strung with one guitar string. ...

Fun, Work Behind The Cameras At Filming of 2nd T.A.M.I. Show

Report by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, December 1965

A COUPLE OF weeks ago The BEAT took you behind the scenes of a recording session to show you that it was not so easy ...

The Year That Folk Moved In

Report by Keith Altham, NME Annual, 1966

BOB DYLAN – the undisputed King of Folk. He causes as much controversy personally as do his records. ...

Donovan: All Things Bright and Beautiful

Interview by Keith Altham, NME, January 1967

At new Wimbledon home DONOVAN talks about shape of things to come ...

Donovan: All Is Friendly

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, NME, March 1967

WHENEVER returning from interviewing Donovan these days I feel that I've been the subject of a Sunday School treat. He surrounds himself with such nice ...

Donovan: "I Remember Donovan... And It Makes Me Feel Good!"

Interview by Keith Altham, Flip, August 1967

DONOVAN HAS achieved something that at one time I would have thought impossible — he has emerged from 'The Scream Age' into 'The Ear Age' ...

Cream/Donovan: The Cream Set Records in Detroit

Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, October 1967

LAST WEEKEND about 4,500 kids proved that Detroit knows good contemporary music. ...

A Poet He Is, But The Messiah? Not Donovan

Report by Loraine Alterman, Go, November 1968

GLASGOW'S GENTLEST son, Donovan, breezed into the Plaza Nine Room at New York's famous Plaza Hotel for a press conference. Wearing lavender trousers, a blue ...

Donovan: 'I Put Myself Into My Music'

Interview by Keith Altham, NME Summer Special, Summer 1968

Donovan is the gentle giant in the pop world. He is largely responsible for shattering the conventional image of the folk singer satirized so beautifully ...

Donovan: The Wind Rises And The Tide Goes Out

Interview by Keith Altham, Hit Parader, January 1969

AT THE OFFICE, off Berkeley Square, of "international" Beatles press officer Tony Barrow, they were organizing "instant" interviews with Donovan. Like most writers I have ...

Blind Faith, Richie Havens, Donovan, Edgar Broughton Band, The Third Ear Band: Hyde Park, London

Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, June 1969

Following Blind Faith to the shores of a lake ...

Poet-Minstrel Donovan Plays At Hollywood Bowl

Live Review by John Mendelsohn, Los Angeles Times, September 1969

EVERY YEAR at this time Donovan Leitch seats himself beatifically on the stage of the Hollywood Bowl, plays the gentle poet/minstrel from another time and ...

Donovan: Madison Square Garden, New York NY

Live Review by Mike Jahn, New York Times, October 1969

Garden (Madison Sq.) Is Ideal For the Ever-Florid Donovan ...

Donovan: Meditation Is Like A Miracle Cure

Interview by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, January 1970

IT IS A FAR CRY from 'Catch The Wind' to songs like 'Winking Blinking and Nod' or 'A Poke At The Pope' but then Donovan ...

Donovan: Portrait Of The Artist As A Desert Rat

Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, January 1975

– a small, furry, herbivorous animal, which possesses the happy knack of elusiveness. Just like DONOVAN, in fact, who's so elusive that even CHRIS SALEWICZ ...

Donovan: 7-Tease

Review by Chris Salewicz, NME, January 1975

NOW THE FACTS are these: 7-Tease is a concept album; 7-Tease is a massive made-in-Nashville production; 7-Tease is also The Album Of The Stage Show. ...

Donovan: Flower Child's Second Bloom

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, August 1976

FEW ARTISTS evoke memories of the Sixties as much as Donovan who, even in this enlightened age, still clings resolutely to the styles that developed ...

Donovan: The Graying of Mellow Yellow

Interview by Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, July 1987

Donovan admits he feels a little creepy at his ritzy hotel gig ...

Donovan: Wordy Gurdy Man

Interview by Len Brown, NME, November 1990

IT'S BIN A long time comin'. Twenty-five years since his first Top 20 hit ('Catch The Wind' in '65) and over 20 since his last ...

Donovan: Sunshine Superman/Mellow Yellow/The Hurdy Gurdy Man/Barabajagal

Review by Tom Hibbert, MOJO, January 1995

HOW WAS IT that our "Celtic" hippie friend put it to Queen magazine in 1967? Oh, yes: "Pop is the perfect religious vehicle. It's as ...

Donovan: Sutras

Review and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, 1996

Donovan’s comeback album, produced by bearded eccentric Rick Rubin, owner of American Records and the man behind The Beastie Boys, Slayer and Johnny Cash’s acclaimed ...

I Ask The Questions: Donovan

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Mail On Sunday, 1996

THE CURLY hair’s still there, the elfin face, incense wafts about the room, but there is something amiss. That’s it: Donovan is wearing a suit. ...

Donovan

Retrospective and Interview by Richie Unterberger, MOJO, January 2005

MID JULY 2004. In the dark-wooded, rich red subterranea of San Francisco's Cafe du Nord a song is building off little more than a two-chord ...