Biography

He began as a Guthrie/Dylan-style folkie, but soon Donovan Leitch adopted a more psychedelic flower-power stance. His knack for sunny, wistful pop songs produced a batch of giant 1960s hits. His fragile manchild voice and image made him a hippie pinup boy, but there was a deep wellspring of emotion behind songs like "Catch the Wind" and "Colours." By the '70s, Donovan had largely dropped off the radar, but he made a resounding comeback in the '90s with the spare, affecting, Rick Rubin-produced SUTRAS.

Top Tracks

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• Appearances

• Atlantis

• Barabajagal (love Is Hot)

• Be Mine

• Bleak City Woman

• Catch The Wind

• Celeste

• Celia Of The Seals

• Changes

• Clara Clairvoyant

• Colours

• Cosmic Wheels

• Do You Hear Me Now

• Get Thy Bearings

• Give It All Up

• Guinevere

• Hey Gyp (dig The Slowness)

• House Of Jansch

• Hurdy Gurdy Man

• Isle Of Islay

• Jennifer Juniper

• Jersey Thursday

• Lady Of The Stars

• Life Is A Merry-go-round

• Local Boy Chops Wood

• Mad John's Escape

• Mandolin Man And His Secret

• Mellow Yellow

• Oh Deed I Do

• Oh Gosh

• Only The Blues

• Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth

• People Call Me Pied Piper

• People Used To

• Poorman's Sunshine

• Riki Tiki Tavi

• Roots Of Oak

• Sadness

• Sand And Foam

• Season Of The Witch

• Shambala

• Someone Singing

• Song Of The Naturalist's Wife

• Starfish-on-the-toast

• Summer Day Reflection Song

• Sun

• Sunny Goodge Street

• Sunshine Superman

• Sunshine Superman [long Version]

• Superlungs My Supergirl

• The Cuckoo

• The Fat Angel

• The Little Tin Soldier

• The Quest

• The River Song

• The Summer Day Reflection Song

• The Tinker And The Crab

• The Traveling People

• The Way

• There Is An Ocean

• There Was A Time

• To Susan On The West Coast Waiting

• Turquoise

• Two Lovers

• Universal Soldier

• Wear Your Love Like Heaven

• Why Do You Treat Me Like You Do?

• Writer In The Sun

• You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond

Discography

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• Beat Cafe

  Appleseed Records

  2004

• Pied Piper

  Music For Little People / Rhino

  2002

• Sutras

  American Recordings / Sony Music Distribution

  1996

• Live in Concert

  QED

  1992

• Lady of the Stars

  Allegiance Records

  1983

• Donovan

  Beat Goes On / Castle Music Ltd.

  1977

• Slow Down World

  Epic

  1976

• 7-Tease

  Repertoire

  1974

• Essence to Essence

  Sony Music Distribution

  1973

• Live in Tokyo '73

  Dirty 13

  1973

• Cosmic Wheels

  Sony Music Distribution

  1973

• HMS Donovan

  Beat Goes On

  1971

• Open Road

  Repertoire

  1970

• A Gift from a Flower to a Garden

  Sony Music Distribution

  1967

• For Little Ones

  1967

• Wear Your Love Like Heaven

  Epic

  1967

• Sunshine Superman [UK]

  Beat Goes On / Bang On

  1967

• Fairytale

  Castle Music Ltd.

  1965

• Catch the Wind

  Sequel/Nex Records

  1965

• What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid

  Sanctuary

  1965