But on a new deluxe edition of The Hurdy Gurdy Man, the parent album, the credits for the title track are as follows: Donovan ...

During a 2013 interview with Performing Songwriter, the “Sunshine Superman” singer explained how he became interested in meditation. “Reading Jack Kerouac and hearing the word ‘Zen’ and going on to ...

He traded folk songs with Bob Dylan, duetted with Joan Baez, and joined the Beatles in the studio. But despite his strong association with “that extraordinary decade called the 1960s”, Donovan ...

In 1968, The Beatles traveled to India to take part in a Transcendental Meditation course. While there, the band members were prolifically creative. They wrote dozens of songs that ended up on their ...

If you had gone on a multi-week spiritual quest to India with the Beatles, you'd probably talk about it a lot, too. Even if that trip happened four decades ago. Veteran Scottish folk singer Donovan ...

Some hardcore fans of The Beatles and practitioners of Transcendent Meditation have at least one thing in common: They have made a pilgrimage, at some point, to the holy city of Rishikesh, India. You ...

RISHIKESH, India — In 1968, The Beatles and a crew of hangers-on traded hip London threads for kurtas and wreaths of marigold, trudging through dense forest to an ashram in Rishikesh, India, where ...

The Beatles‘ “Julia” includes some beautiful surrealist imagery. Donovan said he might’ve written one of the tune’s most striking lines. Subsequently, Donovan unambiguously said he wrote the line.

Donovan’s “Season of the Witch” doesn’t sound too much like any of The Beatles‘ albums. However, the “Wear Your Love Like Heaven” singer said that one of the Fab Four’s albums drew from the musical ...