Donovan
Also Known As: Donovan Philips Leitch, Donovan Leitch
Biography: Donovan Philips Leitch, better known mononymously as Donovan, is a Scottish-born singer, songwriter and guitarist.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Dont Look Back
Overview: In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated philosophical jousts with journalists, and kicks back with fellow musicians Joan Baez, Donovan, and Alan Price.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-17
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A Boy Called Donovan
Overview: Follows Donovan, the Scottish singer/songwriter; his lifestyle: his friends, his haunts and his music. Some 15 songs on a string.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-19
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Overview: A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machinations of the music biz. Now, they must thwart a plot to destroy their home town. Built around the music of The Beatles, this musical uses some big name groups like Peter Frampton and Aerosmith.
Genres: Adventure Music Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-24
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Donovan: Live on the Bouton Rouge Show
Overview: Donovan performs various songs including Guinevere, The Tinker And The Crab & Season Of The Witch.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-21
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Donovan In Concert - BBC 1972
Overview: Donovan performs various songs including Jennifer Juniper, Catch the Wind, Mellow Yellow & many more!
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-26
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Acoustic at the BBC
Overview: A journey through some of the finest moments of acoustic guitar performances from the BBC archives, from Jimmy Page's television debut in 1958 to Noel Gallagher and Biffy Clyro.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-02
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Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
Overview: In August 1970, 600,000 fans flocked to the Isle of Wight to witness the third and final festival to be held on the island. Besides the music, they also got a look at the greed, cynicism and corruption that would plague the music industry for years to come. They also witnessed the final, drugged out performance of Jimi Hendrix in England just two weeks before he would meet a tragic death. When it all was over, the fans view of rock and roll was never the same.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-15
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Sunshine Superman: The Journey of Donovan
Overview: Sunshine Superman The Journey Of Donovan is the ultimate life story of the 60´s folk-pop phenomenon. The deluxe double-DVD set contains classic 60´s film and TV appearances, rare archive footage and never-before-seen material as well as 5 previously unreleased songs and all of the hits. With appearances by Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Mickie Most, Rick Rubin, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Franco Zeffirelli, David Lynch (and many more) and a 40 page booklet chock full of informative liner notation and exclusive photo material, Sunshine Superman is the ultimate story of Donovan s remarkable and unique four decade career
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Wind in the Willows
Overview: Wind in the Willows is a rock musical based on the legendary children's novel by Kenneth Grahame. Eddie Hardin (Spencer Davis Group) adapted the classic novel and, together with Zak Starkey (Ringo Starr's son!) co-wrote a breath-taking stage project! A first-class cast - with world-renowned musicians like Jon Lord (Deep Purple), Donovan, Ray Fenwick (Ian Gillan Band), Maggie Bell (Stone the Crows, Alex Harvey), Tony Ashton (Roger Chapman), and Don Airey (Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest) - makes this stage performance a perfect enjoyment!
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-01
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The Big T.N.T. Show
Overview: Live performances by some of the top rock-and-roll acts of the mid 60s. Includes Ray Charles, The Byrds, Joan Baez, Ike and Tina Turner, Donovan, The Lovin' Spoonful, and several more.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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All My Loving
Overview: Originally a BBC documentary, this film by Tony Palmer about the 1960's music scene was later released as a standalone DVD by the BFI
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-03
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The Pied Piper
Overview: Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-27
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The Battle of the Mods
Overview: In Liverpool there's a gang war between the Mods (who dress in the latest fashions and styles) and the Rockers (who are more into the '50s "greaser" look). Ricky, the son of a wealthy businessman, is a Mod guitar player, and in a gang fight with some Rockers, his girlfriend is killed. He leaves Liverpool for the continent and winds up in Rome, where he becomes involved with his father's mistress.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-05
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Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip
Overview: A documentary on the pop music and culture of the 1960's, featuring film and video clips of 60's-era performers.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-25
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Donovan: The Donovan Concert - Live in L.A.
Overview: Musical - This incredible performance DVD was recorded in front of a packed house of adoring fans at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. On this, his first music DVD, Donovan performed all his legendary hits and cult classics. - Donovan Leitch Jr., Mike Love
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Walking After Midnight
Overview: Explores the past-life experiences of various celebrities.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Overview: Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-off movie, TV special and record albums – Cleese, Lewis and Walker planned the next show to be a more spectacular event. Cleese focused on broadening the comedic talent to be presented at the show. In addition to the Amnesty show stalwarts drawn from the Oxbridge/Monty Python/Beyond The Fringe orbit, he invited newcomers such as Rowan Atkinson’s colleagues from the BBC TV show Not the Nine O'Clock News including Pamela Stephenson and Griff Rhys Jones; comedian Victoria Wood and regional comic Jasper Carrott. Lewis secured a return appearance by Billy Connolly and a debut appearance by "alternative" comedian Alexei Sayle who Lewis had recently discovered and was managing. Building on the success of Pete Townshend's 1979 appearance Lewis recruited other rock musicians to perform at the 1981 show including Sting, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Donovan and Bob Geldof.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-01
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The Lost Paths
Overview: Series of three short 'Pop Films' directed between 1966 - 67 for French television by Philippe Garrel. Includes footage of The Living Theater in rehearsal, interviews with Julian Beck and Judith Malina, Donovan in concert and The Who in the studio recording 'Pictures of Lily'. Re-broadcast on INA in 1984.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Superstars in Concert
Overview: Over ten years, documentary filmmaker Peter Clifton has recorded performances by some of the biggest names in world pop rock. From 1964 to 1973, groups such as the Rolling Stones, Animals, Cream, Blind Faith, Pink Floyd and Faces passed through London, as well as emblematic singers of that period, some with meteoric trajectory such as Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix; others, poets of a single era, like Cat Stevens and Donovan, as well as those who would shine brighter a few years later, like Joe Cocker and Tina Turner. You can check it all out on this historic DVD, an indispensable document for anyone who appreciates the purest rock.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Festival
Overview: Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, who's acoustic and electric. Son House and Mike Bloomfield talk about the blues; John Hurt, Howlin' Wolf, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee show its range. The Osborne Brothers perform bluegrass. Donovan, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Mimi and Dick Farina, and others less well known also perform. Several talk musical philosophy, and there's a running commentary about the nature and appeal of folk music. The crowd looks clean cut.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-23
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The Music of David Lynch
Overview: The David Lynch Foundation celebrates its 10th anniversary with an exploration of the director's use of immersive and ambient sound in his films, "Twin Peaks," and his original albums. This tribute concert features performances by Duran Duran, Moby, Donovan and Zola Jesus, among others.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-10
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New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert
Overview: The U.K.'s New Musical Express poll winners concert. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Searchers, the Moody Blues, Freddie and the Dreamers, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, the Seekers, Herman's Hermits, the Ivy League and Division Two, Sounds Incorporated, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Cilla Black, Donovan, Them, the Animals, the Kinks.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-11
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Aliens from Spaceship Earth
Overview: While the aliens in this film may seem to be quite human, one must realize that we're dealing with close encounters of the fourth kind. An inner space journey triggered by the drug culture and rebellion of the 1960s, and the non-violent search for self that continues among people in today's culture. Could this be due to some influence from a higher spiritual consciousness? The world's alien leaders are well represented in this film: Baba Muktananda, Swami Satchidananda, A. C. Bhaktivedanta, Guru Maharaj Ji, Yoga Bhahan, Sri Sathya, Sai Baba, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Father Yod, Baba Ram Das, and well-known personalities who present their views on seeking their own terrestrial individuality.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Carnaby Street Undressed
Overview: Carnaby Street Undressed is a story of fashion, music and eye opening insights into London's Carnaby Street in its 1960s heyday, told by the owners of the fashion shops that defined the iconic Street, and the popular musicians who were part of the “the scene”. This includes The Who lead sing Roger Daltrey, Donovan, Frank Allen from the Searchers, Gary Leeds from The Walker Brothers, and Peter Noone from Herman’s Hermits. The film is the story of a generation that rebelled against the grey conformity of the 1950s with a cultural revolution emanating from Carnaby Street from where it spread across the globe changing fashion and music forever.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-17
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The Genius of Bert Jansch: Folk, Blues & Beyond
Overview: Interviews and rare archive footage weave together performances from a landmark multi-artist concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London, celebrating the songs and artistry of the great folk-blues troubadour Bert Jansch.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-28
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My Generation
Overview: The vivid and inspiring story of British film icon Michael Caine's personal journey through 1960s swinging London.
Genres: Documentary Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-08
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Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
Overview: This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage and film portraits providing candid and interesting glimpses of Bob Dylan, Salvador Dalí, Jane Fonda and The Velvet Underground among other 1960s icons and featuring original music by Angus MacLise, who was the first drummer to perform with The Velvet Underground.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Overview: The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-28
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David Wants to Fly
Overview: A documentary. David Sieveking takes the advice of his idol, David Lynch and tries out Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's transcendental meditation technique.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-06
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The Old Fashioned Picture Book
Overview: Co-directed by Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera veteran Tony Benedict and Donovan himself, this live-action/animated short film was released in 1971 to promote Donovan's self-produced children's album "HMS Donovan". Comprised of a live-action seaside picnic framing device and three of the album's songs animated in the style of Scottish artist John 'Patrick' Byrne.
Genres: Music Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-24
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Cucumber Castle
Overview: On his death bed, The King orders his kingdom divided into two halves, the Kingdom of Jelly and the Kingdom of Cucumbers. Before the king even dies, Prince Frederick declares himself "King of Cucumbers" and Prince Marmaduke becomes the “King of Jelly”.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-26
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Ken Russell: In Search of the English Folk Song
Overview: This documentary begins with Ken Russell posing the question: "What is a true English folk song, if there is such a thing?" After recieving an indifferent response from his dog, Ken journeys around the countryside of England searching for an answer. He bumps into and interviews such famous artists as; Donovan, Fairport Convention, Osibisa, Eliza Carthy, So What, Edward II and The Albion Band among others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Overview: A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.
Genres: Romance Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-24
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Totally 60s Psychedelic Rock At The BBC
Overview: 1.Yardbirds - Over Under Sideways Down 2.Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine 3.Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale 4.The Who - I Can See For Miles 5.Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man 6.The Nice - America 7.Julie Driscoll.Brian Auger,The Trinity - This Wheel's on Fire 8.Status Quo - Pictures of Matchstick Men 9.Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire 10.Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends 11.Small Faces - Song of a Baker 12.Moody Blues - Ride My See Saw 13.Bonzo Dog Band - Canyons of your Mind 14.Incredible String Band - Half Remarkable Question 15.The Move - I Can Hear The Grass Grow 16.Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe 17.Jimi Hendrix Experience - Sunshine of your Love 18.Cream - White Room 19.Moody Blues - Om
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-23
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Does Anyone Care What Anyone Says In Rock’n’Roll?
Overview: A legendary music industry figure and star-maker takes a late-in-life career left turn, to write and perform his own music with a little help from his friends.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
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There Is an Ocean
Overview: A film documenting the Scottish songwriter Donovan during his time spent in Greece with his band Open Road in 1970.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-15
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Meditation, Creativity, Peace
Overview: This documentary shot by film students follows David Lynch on a 16-country tour of Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America to spread the word about the individual and global impact of meditation. Meditation, Creativity, Peace shows the director’s commitment to Transcendental Meditation as way of changing the world, starting from within. The film also offers insight into Lynch’s creative process, through interviews and revealing moments from the tour.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-15
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