It was 27 years ago...

[Chien de feu]

Hello Martin

Bienvenue parmi nous

J'espère que tu trouvera ton bonheur ici

[Chiquitito]

Salutation à toi

Et la chanson française ? Pas du tout ?

Et bien, tu en fait des concerts, il faut ! Après on regrette... on en a déjà trop raté faute d'être nés des décennies trop tard !

Bon, je sors mon petit chouchou, tu dois surement connaitre : Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man.

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[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lKCUuyojDI[/video]

[Algernon]

Hurdy Gurdy Man est l'une des chansons les plus rock de Donovan, avec des guitares psychédéliques distordues et un solo joué par Alan Parker – Jimi Hendrix étant indisponible, au grand regret de Donovan.

In the booklet that came with Donovan's 1992 double CD, Troubadour : The Definitive Collection 1964-1976 *, Allan Holdsworth and Jimmy Page are listed as the electric guitar players and John Bonham and Clem Cattini (spelled as "Clem Clatini") as drummers on the recording. However, according to John Paul Jones, who arranged and played bass on the track (and also booked the session musicians), Clem Cattini played the drums and Alan Parker played the electric guitar. This line-up was confirmed by Cattini. In Donovan's autobiography, he credits Cattini (spelled as "Catini") and Bonham for the drums.
On Jimmy Page's website, he lists this song as one on which he plays. However, someone on a forum site said that Page himself has never claimed to have played on the track and has also said that Alan Parker was the guitarist on the session. Donovan said that Page was the guitarist in Hannes Rossacher's 2008 documentary Sunshine Superman: The Journey of Donovan, where he also asserted that the song ushered in the Celtic rock sound which would lead to Page, Jones, and Bonham forming Led Zeppelin soon afterwards. In Donovan's autobiography, he credited both Page and "Allen Hollsworth" as the "guitar wizards" for the song. However, he also says that "Hollsworth" had played with Blue Mink, which was a band that Alan Parker had played in. In the autobiography, Donovan said that perhaps this session inspired the creation of Led Zeppelin.
The tambura had been given to Donovan in India by George Harrison, and in his autobiography, Donovan said that with the drone of the tambura, he had created "Celtic Rock".
The session was produced by Mickie Most and engineered by Eddie Kramer.
Donovan had originally hoped Jimi Hendrix would play on the song, but he was unavailable. In fact, Donovan said he wanted to give the song to Hendrix for him to record, but that Mickie Most "flipped out" when he heard the song and insisted that Donovan should record it himself as his next single.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ct7gccuueU[/video]

* que j'ai