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Donovan (Music)

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	Donovan (Music)	comment	Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946 in Glasgow) is a Scottish singer-songwriter who, in the mid-to-late 1960s, attained worldwide fame as an icon of the burgeoning "flower power" movement, chiefly through his songs espousing the virtues of love and altruism. Though a self-professed contemporary bard in the classic sense of the term – best-known for his simple, acoustic balladry on the guitar – Donovan was, and remains, a hugely eclectic artist, making a majority of his albums Genre Roulettes which experiment to a greater degree than his inexorable public image as a long-haired, tunic-clad "hippie" – a term that the man himself seems to dismiss to some extent – would suggest.Born and raised in the ruins of post-war factory town Edinburgh, as a teenager, Donovan – inspired by the writings of beat poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, along with books on various Eastern philosophies – left home to live like a Bohemian, together with his Heterosexual Life-Partner Gypsy Dave (or "Gyp", for short). Although Donovan's father was a factory lifer, his love of classic English poetry was a large influence on his son, one that can be heard throughout his discography. As chance would have it, Donovan found his creative muse in music, eventually becoming a skilled guitarist; he was well known for his a distinctive "clawhammer" finger-picking style, taught to him by banjo virtuoso Derroll Adams, whom Donovan idolized.Donovan became an overnight sensation following a fateful appearance on ITV's Ready Steady Go!, scoring an early hit with "Catch the Wind". He was quickly deemed a Bob Dylan copycat by the media, mostly on account of the many similarities "Catch the Wind" had to Dylan's songs of the period such as "Blowin' in the Wind". They had, in fact, both drawn inspiration from traditional Irish balladry; but while Dylan himself, as well as Joan Baez, came to Donovan's defense, he unfortunately seems to be unable to ever live it down. Perhaps spurred on by this snag on his path, Donovan reinvented himself for the first time with his 1966 album Sunshine Superman, in the process codifying (if not serving as the Trope Maker for) parts of the framework of the new-fangled "psychedelic" music that would soon thereafter explode into the mainstream.Donovan continued to release seminal works throughout the '60s – eventually returning to his more humble musical roots as psychedelia grew farther and farther away from his own sensibilities – in his own unique style, exploring genres such as jazz, blues, and calypso along the way. Notably, he was part of the famed group of artists that traveled to India to learn transcendental meditation from the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; among them all four Beatles, Prudence Farrow (Mia's sister), and Mike Love of The Beach Boys. During this Indian sojourn, Donovan passed on his finger-picking style to Paul McCartney and John Lennon, which the two used to write songs that would end up on what would be known as The White Album.Come the wane of the flower power movement at the close of the '60s did Donovan's own popularity share much the same fate, his chart success gradually dwindling until the mid-'70s when he stopped charting altogether. He would, and still does, retain a sizeable following and status as an Ensemble Dark Horse cult hero, continuing to tour the world and still experimenting with new songs, ideas, and sounds. His 2005 autobiography The Hurdy-Gurdy Man charts the path of his life and art in intriguing detail.As of 2020, Donovan and his wife Linda have begun a project called Eco-Song, dedicated to environmental activist Greta Thunberg and the Fridays For Future movement. It's a collection of 21 songs on this subject from across his career; and it will also be a stage musical, to be performed by children and young adults worldwide.He is also the father of American actors Donovan Leitch, Jr. and Ione Skye.Discography:
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