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DONOVAN - LIVE PARIS THEATRE (1981) (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 2 broadcast: 7th December 2025
A classic In Concert performance from folk legend Donovan at the BBC's Paris Theatre in 1981. Featuring Sunshine Superman, Jennifer Juniper, Catch The Wind, Universal Soldier, Hurdy Gurdy Man, Colours, Season of the Witch and Mellow Yellow. Introduced by Pete Drummond.
Donovan - Sunshine Superman
Donovan - Jennifer Juniper
Donovan - Lalena
Donovan - The Universal Soldier
Donovan - Catch The Wind
Donovan - Love Is Only Feeling
Donovan - Lady Of The Flowers
Donovan - Johnny Tuff
Donovan - Neutron
Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man
Donovan - Colours
Donovan - Season Of The Witch
Donovan - Mellow Yellow
CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: DONOVAN - SUNSHINE SUPERMAN (320kbs-m4a/62mb/27mins)
BBC Radio Scotland broadcast: 23rd December 2018
Davie Scott speaks to Donovan and pals about the dippy, trippy Sunshine Superman album.
Manfred Mann - 5-4-3-2-1
Bob Dylan - Catch The Wind
Donovan - Catch The Wind
Donovan - Josie
Donovan - Colours
Donovan - Sunny Goodge Street
Th Animals - Boom Boom
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Fire
Donovan - Sunshine Superman
Donovan - Celeste
Donovan - Legend Of A Girl Child Linda
Donovan - Season Of The Witch
Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger & The Trinity - Season Of The Witch
Al Kooper & Mike Bloomfield - Season Of The Witch
Donovan - Three Kingfishers
Donovan - The Trip
Donovan - Sunshine Superman
MASTERTAPES SERIES 5 - 8. DONOVAN (THE B-SIDE) (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 12th January 2016
John Wilson continues with his fifth series of Mastertapes, in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios.
Programme 6 (B-side): Having discussed the making of 'Sunshine Superman' (in the A-side of the programme, broadcast on Monday 11th January and available online), Donovan responds to questions from the audience and performs exclusive live acoustic versions of some of the key tracks from the album.
Producer: Clare Walker
MASTERTAPES SERIES 5 - 7. DONOVAN (THE A-SIDE) (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 11th January 2016
John Wilson continues with the fifth series of Mastertapes, the programme in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios.
Programme 7. Donovan talks to John Wilson about 'Sunshine Superman', which according to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame "ignited the psychedelic revolution virtually single-handedly" when it was released in the summer of 1966.
'Sunshine Superman' is Donovan's breakthrough third album and a radical departure from his previous work. Born in Glasgow, Donovan Phillips Leitch grew up listening to his father reading him poetry and his family singing Scots Irish folk music. He began playing guitar when he was 14 and was 18 when he had his first hit, 'Catch the Wind'. A year later he began work on the album that first introduced meditation, Celtic mythology and Flower Power to the world.
Creating a unique fusion of classical, jazz, folk, pop, Celtic, Latin and Indian music, the album veered from the LA-influenced 'The Trip' and 'The Fat Angel' (written for Mama Cass) to the medieval tinged 'Guinevere' and 'Legend of a Girl Child Linda' (written for Brian Jones' ex-girlfriend Linda Lawrence who became Donovan's life-long muse and wife). Linda is also the Sunshine Super-Girl of the song 'Sunshine Superman' which topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic and featured a young Jimmy Page on lead guitar.
The B-side of the programme, where it's the turn of the audience to ask the questions, can be heard on Tuesday 12th January at 3.30pm.
Producer: Clare Walker
DONOVAN - LIVE CAMBRIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL 1981 (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 18th February 2017
Donovan - Josie
Donovan - Sunshine Superman
Donovan - Catch The Wind
Donovan - Hey Gyp
Donovan - Universal Soldier
Donovan - Mountain
Donovan - Colours
Donovan - Heights Of Alma
Donovan - Johnny Tuff
Donovan - Only What The Lonely Call The Blues
Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man
Donovan - Laléna
Donovan - Sunny Goodge Street
Donovan - Jennifer Juniper
Donovan - Lady Of The Flowers
Donovan - Mellow Yellow