The interview originally aired on January 17, 2006. Here & Now: Listen To Our Entire 2006 Interview With Donovan."We're all insecure, and artists are more insecure than others." "It became quite dangerous - fame - and I got a bit scared of it, I didn't quite understand how to continue," Donovan says. After accomplishing his mission of introducing "poetry again to popular culture," he thought: "Why keep doing it?" We were everywhere."ĭonovan took an extended break from the music business when he was just 24 years old. "Either you were for Donovan, or you were for Dylan. "The folk world was invading pop culture that spring, and people got very very hot under the collar," he said. According to Donovans notes, accompanying the album Donovans Greatest Hits, the rumor that one could get high from smoking dried banana skins was started by. Donovan - Mellow Yellow (2005 Remastered Version) Donovan - Writer in the Sun (2005 Remastered Version) Mono. He says he's not sure why his fans and Dylan's fans were at odds with each other during the 60s. "They thought I was following Bob, when Bob and I were following Guthrie." "The cap and the harmonica that Bob wore, and the cap and the harmonica that I wore, was really in homage to the great American Woody Guthrie," said Donovan. He was a sixties icon with hits such as "Mellow Yellow," "Sunshine Superman" and "Hurdy Gurdy Man."īut at the age of 24, he left music behind for 40 years, only to reemerge in 2005 with a new compilation of his music and an autobiography "The Hurdy Man."ĭonovan sat down with Here & Now's Robin Young in 2006 to reflect on his life and career.Īt the height of his career, Donovan was often called the "British Bob Dylan." But he explained that people mistakenly believed he was influenced by Dylan. 'Mellow Yellow' was the name of Donovans hit single released the previous November. Scottish folk and pop star Donovan will be inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April. When this song came out in 1966, there was a widespread rumor that it was about getting high on banana skins. Facebook Email This article is more than 11 years old. Donovan - Mellow Yellow (Audio) - YouTube 0:00 / 3:50 Donovan - Mellow Yellow (Audio) Donovan 63.5K subscribers Subscribe 38K Share Save 2.8M views 6 years ago Music video by. Some of the sounds and sentiments may sound a little dated, but the productions and the songs - 'Sunshine Superman,' 'Jennifer Juniper,' 'Wear Your Love Like Heaven,' 'Season of the Witch,' 'Mellow Yellow,' 'Hurdy Gurdy Man,' 'Epistle to Dippy,' 'There Is a Mountain,' 'Lalena' - have proven to be classics of the era, and this is the best. Donovan had recently helped out McCartney on another 'Yellow' song: He provided the 'sky of blue, sea of green' line in ' Yellow Submarine.
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