After a string of hits in the late 1960s, Donovan closed out the decade with a tune that marked the end of his chart run ...

Asked to name his greatest achievement, the British folksinger name-dropped two of the greatest British songwriters of all time ...

One of the chief pleasures of James Mangold’s acclaimed new Bob Dylan film biography “A Complete Unknown” comes from the assistance it provides to old-timers often trying, usually failing, to explain ...

When people think about the 1960s, they are probably thinking about the period from 1966 to 1969. That era typified most of the artistic and aesthetic elements that defined the decade. Prior to 1966, ...

“Mellow Yellow” by Donovan is the most beloved 1960s song with the word “yellow” in the title that wasn’t released by The Beatles. During an interview, the “Atlantis” singer opined that his catalog ...

Some songs that were ignorable in the 1960s became classic rock songs after the fact. For example, Donovan's "Season of the Witch" is more famous now than it ever was.

The Kinks frontman Ray Davies and Scottish singer Donovan are to be inducted into America's Songwriters Hall of Fame. The class of 2014 will feature the Lola hitmaker and Donovan, who rose to fame in ...

Donovan's "Season of the Witch" doesn't sound much like any of The Beatles' albums. However, Donovan said that one of the Fab Four's albums drew from the track.

One could argue that there is truly no one writer of a song. Really, no one person can be given sole credit for the endless amount of inspiration and guidance that goes into one song, given that a ...

Hiding somewhere between psychedelic rock and folk music, freak folk is an oft-overlooked genre of the 1960s and 1970s that we believe is worth revisiting. Freak folk was certainly a byproduct of the ...

Mickie Most, a leading British pop record producer of the 1960s and ‘ 70s who recorded the Animals, Donovan, Herman ‘ s Hermits and others, died May 30 at his home in London. He was 64. The cause was ...