Information About Donovan

This is where you will find most everything you ever wanted to know about Donovan. Everything's in bulleted form so it will be much easier to read.

• Full Name: Donovan Philips Leitch
  
• Birthdate: May 10th, 1946
  
• Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland
  
• Raised In: Hatfield, England. His family moved there when he was 10 (a.k.a. 1956 )
  
• Marital Status: To Linda Anne Lawrence in 1970 after a five-year courtship. He has never been divorced.
  
• Children: Five; Julian, Astrella, Oriole, Donovan Jr., and Ione
  
• Grandchildren: One as of 1992; Sebastian (Oriole's son).
  
• Greatest Influences: Songwriters: Buddy Holly, Woody Guthrie, Derrol Adams and Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ray Davies, and Bert Jansch; Poets: Christopher Logue, William Butler Yeats, Dylan Thomas, e.e. cummings, and Allen Ginsberg.
  
• Debut Single: "Catch The Wind"; it reached the British Top 10 in 1965
  
• Best-Known Song: If you've heard anything by Donovan, it's probably "Mellow Yellow".
  
• Cool Links To Other 60s Artists: John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin arranged many Donovan tracks; Jimmy Page, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones (three future members of Led Zeppelin) played (respectively) guitar, drums, and bass on Don's song "Hurdy Gurdy Man"; Herman's Hermits covered a version of his song "Museum"; Paul McCartney sang backup on "Mellow Yellow"; Mike McGear (Paul McCartney's brother) and Graham Nash sang backup on "Happiness Runs"; George Harrison supplied a line that wasn't actually released on the song "Hurdy Gurdy Man"; Donovan supplied a line for the Beatles' song "Yellow Submarine"; Don stayed in India to learn about the Maharishi's teachings with the Beatles, their wives, and Mia Farrow.
  
• Currently Living In: Ireland with his wife, Linda.

I would like to greatly thank Brian Hogg and Derek Taylor who wrote the liner notes on the 2-CD collection "Troubador" as this is where I got all my information from.

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