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 ...

The best classic rock songs often have sad backstories. For example, Donovan’s “Season of the Witch” was inspired by the dark side of the 1960s. The tune wasn’t actually a hit at the time, but it’s ...

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

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.

During a 2016 interview with Songfacts, Donovan was asked where the imagery from his trippy track “Wear Your Love Like Heaven” originated. He responded by comparing it to The Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky ...

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 ...