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10 August 2009
Donovan will be named a BMI Icon at the annual BMI London Awards,
slated for Tuesday, October 6 at London's Dorchester Hotel, Park
Lane. The invitation-only gala will recognize the UK and European
songwriters and publishers of the past year's most-played BMI songs
on American radio and television.
The Icon designation is given to BMI songwriters who have bestowed "a
unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers."
Donovan joins an elite list of past honorees that includes
multi-genre nobility Bryan Ferry, Peter Gabriel, Ray Davies, Van
Morrison, the Bee Gees, Isaac Hayes, Dolly Parton, James Brown,
Willie Nelson, Hall & Oates, Paul Simon, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Steve
Winwood and more.
Donovan is a master of poignant simplicity. Capable of evoking
passionate idealism and freewheeling emotion in a single word or
chord, he transformed popular music in the 1960s and went on to build
a legendary career with hits including "Mellow Yellow," "Sunshine
Superman," "Wear Your Love Like Heaven," "There Is a Mountain,"
"Lalena," "Epistle to Dippy," "Atlantis," "Hurdy Gurdy Man," and
"Jennifer Juniper," all of which he wrote alone.
His compositions have also resurfaced in hit films and television
series including Goodfellas, Election, Dumb and Dumber, Rushmore, The
Simpsons, Nip/Tuck, Ugly Betty, Clueless, Boys on the Side, Murphy
Brown, My Name is Earl and Dancing with the Stars.
He was profoundly influential on the Beatles, becoming one of an
elite handful of artists who collaborated on songs with the band. In
1965, "Catch the Wind" earned an Ivor Novello Award for best
contemporary folk song, marking the first time the honor was bestowed
on an artist's debut single. Donovan received an Honorary Doctor of
Letters from University of Hertfordshire in 2003, and in 2009, he
became Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters from the Minister of
Culture, France, and garnered the American Visionary Art Museum
Baltimore's prestigious Grand Visionary Award.
A man not only of unfathomable talent but of rare conviction as well,
he is a well-known proponent and student of Transcendental Meditation
and leads the musical wing of the David Lynch Foundation for
Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace. Hard at work on a new
album entitled Ritual Groove, Donovan plans to tour continuously through 2010.
While BMI collects royalties for him in the United States, Donovan is
a member of British performing right society PRS for Music.
Hosted by BMI President & CEO Del Bryant; BMI Senior Vice President,
Writer/Publisher Relations Phil Graham; and Executive Director,
Writer/Publisher Relations, Europe & Asia Brandon Bakshi, the BMI
London Awards will also present the Robert S. Musel Award to the
writer and publisher of the most performed song of the year. BMI will
also bestow "Million-Air" certificates on writers and publishers
whose songs have achieved more than three million U.S. radio and
television performances the equivalent of more than 17 years of
continuous airplay.
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