The unforgettable melodies of the now eighty-year-old Donovan
For five years, between 1965 and 1970, the Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist Donovan Phillips Leitch, known in the music press as Donovan, was at the height of his popularity, thanks to his gently folk songs with psychedelic undertones that made him (trivially and erroneously) define him as “the British Bob Dylan”.
Donovan has never excessively cultivated a cult of himself, and for this reason too he has been quite underestimated and today is not remembered as he deserves. On his eightieth birthday – he was born in Glasgow on 10 May 1946 – we propose you to listen to some of his most beautiful songs.
1965, “Catch the wind”
1965, “Colours”
1965, “Turquoise”
1965, “The universal soldier”
1966, “Sunshine Superman”
1966, “Mellow yellow”
1967, “There is a mountain”
1968, “Jennifer Juniper”
1968, “Hurdy Gurdy Man”
1968, “Laléna”
1968, “Atlantis”
1968, “To Susan on the West Coast waiting”
1969, “Barabajagal (Love is hot)”
