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  • Directors: Hannes Rossacher
  • Format: Best of, Box set, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: Exempt
  • Studio: Spv
  • DVD Release Date: 29 Sep 2008
  • Run Time: 180 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001E45SR6
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,517 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Video Description
The ultimate life story of 60´s folk-pop phenomenon Donovan.

A unique success story - A career, spanning more than 4 decades.

A film full of anecdotes about colleagues, musical collaborators and friends.

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.40-page booklet incl. informative liner notes and exclusive photo material
DVD1 - The Film:
Chapters 1 - 5
* Intro * Childhood * Early Influences * Starting to Write Music * Gypsy Dave
Chapters 6 - 10
* Beat Poets * St. Ives * Going Professional * Breakthrough * Catch the Wind
Chapters 11 - 15
* Dylan vs. Donovan * Newsreel * First Live Performance
* Pop & Protest * Newport Festival
Chapters 16 - 20
* Pete Seeger & Derroll Adams * Sunshine Superman * Drugbust
* Mellow Yellow * Popart & Fashion
Chapters 21 - 25
* Wear Your Love Like Heaven * Romantic Poet * Free Love
* With The Beatles in India * Hurdy Gurdy Man
Chapters 26 - 30
* Happiness Runs * Guitar Maker * Barabajagal * Atlantis * Hollywood
Chapters 31 - 35
* Isle of Wight * Open Road * Breakdown * Meeting the Muse * Desert Days
Chapters 36 - 40
* Music for the Big Screen * Touring in the `70s * Falling Apart
* Coming Home to Ireland * The Sutras Experience
Chapters 41 - 45
* Spirituality and India * With the Eyes of a Child * A Surprise Visit
* New Collaborations * Birthday Bash
Chapters 46 - 48
* On the Road Again * End Credits * David Lynch
DVD2 - Bonus Footage
Extended Versions
* Danny Ferrington Guitar Maker
* Desert Days: Joshua Tree & Gram Parsons
* The Story of Lalena * Interview John Cameron
* Cosmic Wheels in Joshua Tree
* Universal Soldier * Isle of Islay
TV Appearances
* Catch the Wind (A Go Go /1965)
* Sunny Goodge Street, Sweden (1966)
* Give it All Up (Jules Holland/1996)
Music Videos
* Sunshine Superman * Wear Your Love
Like Heaven * Hurdy Gurdy Man
* In an Old-Fashioned Picture Book
* Yellow Star * Cosmic Wheels
* Columbus Stockade Blues
(Hans Theessink, Arlo Guthrie & Donovan)
Unreleased Songs
* Refugee of Love * The Olive Tree
* I Don't Know (Short Version)
* Refugee of Love (Studio Version)
Concerts
* BBC Concert - Jennifer Juniper
* BBC Concert - Mellow Yellow
* Kodak Theater - There is a Mountain
* Kodak Theater - Sunshine Superman
* Kodak Theater - Colours
* Kodak Theater - Jennifer Juniper
* Season of the Witch - Superjam at the
Cutting Room, New York (2008)
The Private Donovan
* Sapphographs (Song: Be Mine)
* Don's Basement
* Donovan's Father Reads Poems
* Maharishi Award
* Doctor of Letters
In recognition of Donovan's poetic skills and ecological work, The University of Hertfordshire honoured Donovan with Doctor of Letters which he received in cap and gown in Saint Albans Cathedral in 2003.
* Donovan University and David Lynch
Donovan and Linda's life - long promotion of Transcendental Meditation continues, working with David Lynch the master film-maker bringing meditation to millions of students worldwide. In 2007 Donovan announced he will build The Invincible Donovan University for Consciousness Based Education and The Arts in his birth country of Scotland.
* Donovan's Family Album

Synopsis
SUNSHINE SUPERMAN is a documentary about the enduring music career of pop-folk legend Donovan. Clips, interviews, and rare archive footage provide an insight into the wider musical soundscape of the time. Tracklisting includes: 'Catch The Wind', 'Universal Soldier', 'Colours', 'Sunshine Superman', 'Season Of The Witch', 'Mellow Yellow', 'There Is A Mountain', 'Isle Of Islay', 'Wear Your Love Like Heaven', 'Hurdy Gurdy Man', 'Jennifer Juniper', 'Lalena', 'Atlantis', 'Barabajagal', 'Happiness Runs', 'Cosmic Wheels', and many more.

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Those bloody frames, 7 Oct 2008
By T. Roth - See all my reviews
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I have been there since the beginning and I love Donovan. This is a good film that could have been so much better if the director had a bit more experience. Instead he had to make some artistic statements, one being the dotted frames. I hate them and they disturb me so much that I cannot watch more than ten minutes at a time. I recognize the idea behind it, but it was a very bad idea so please release a version without that irritating frame.

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23 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Ballad of a crystal man, 7 Oct 2008
By Ben Koerner (Australia) - See all my reviews
This could have been wonderful, as the film maker clearly had access to hours of film from the 60s.

Unfortunately, we see that footage only in glimpses and we have to put up with Donovan as he is today - sadly obsessed with inflating his place in the world, for most of both discs.

That he calls himself "Dr. Donovan Leitch" in the accompanying booklet (having got an honorary doctorate somewhere or other) is exemplary of his need to feel that he's achieved something. The cosmic waffle that he writes beforehand is just embarrassing.

He also 'performs' a couple of songs in a ridiculously mannered way - nothing natural remains, it seems, and any true humility seems to have departed long ago. Sad also, for one who loves the song "To Try for the Sun", to discover that Gypsy Dave was (and remains) a preening poseur.

But all this probably shouldn't deter anyone who knows how truly great Donovan's music was in the years up to (and including) "HMS Donovan", his last decent recording. In the sixties, he really did have the muse with him. There are glimpses of his genius here in old black and white film. Since then, he's done nothing worth having and probably that's at the root of his endless attempts to puff himself up. It's all very reminiscent of poor old Paul McCartney.

My hope is that someone will eventually release ALL of the 60s footage here, without the distraction of present-day Donovan trying to persuade us that he was some kind of gifted sage. Don, you weren't. The cosmic nonsense, the sapphic muse and the beat/bohemia stuff are really such a waste of your intelligence. But you were once a gifted singer and you wrote lovely songs when you focused on the natural world. Go there again one day.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievably comprehensive, 9 Dec 2008
The main film here, at 3 hours in length, is an amazingly comprehensive look at the four decades of Donovan's career. I don't have any problem with the occasional split screens and don't understand the criticisms in some other reviews. If every piece of early footage unearthed here were shown in full, it would be 20+ hours at least. This is a documentary about the journey of Donovan, not an archive of everything he ever did. Yes, Donovan was much more important in the 60s, and yes he is totally delusional now about his place in popular music. There's nothing anyone can do about the former, and the latter is so extreme as to be funny - he seems to feel he invented almost everything. It is also not a psychological condition unique to him, being reasonably common among artists, particularly those now far enough from the cultural mainstream to feel an overwhelming urge for self-justification.

Having said that, this is clearly a must-buy for anyone remotely interested in Donovan, filmed over many years and continents in places of importance to his life, jam packed with rare and unseen archive footage, home movies, performances, insights from a wealth of his famous friends and collaborators and the man's own personal, often hilarious reminiscences and anecdotes about his amazing life. It's not perfect, but there has never been, and probably never again will be a film like this made about the flower power troubadour and Hurdy Gurdy Man.
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4.0 out of 5 stars He Taught the Beatles
Did not realise he taught the Beatles to play guitar!Apart from that Donovan will always remain in my heart has part of the best era ever the sixties. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr. Mk Batstone

5.0 out of 5 stars The gentle rebel bard
Very moving, especially the beginning of the film, which shows the after-effects of World War II on Scotland and what Donovan and the great popular musicians of 60s Britain... Read more
Published 3 months ago by AC

5.0 out of 5 stars Sunshine Superman
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Donovan is a musician poet and storyteller, and what a fabulous story he tells. Read more
Published 3 months ago by J. Brown

2.0 out of 5 stars Wasted Opportunity
I really like 60's music of Donovan so I was excited to pick up this film. The real problem is that there is entirely too much of Donovan talking about his work and providing the... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Nicholas Forro

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent DVD
This superb DVD contains an extensive docmentary on Donovan's career on disc 1 and some extensive extras on disc 2. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mark G. Goacher

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Donovan - Sunshine Man
excellent documentary type film covering Donovans career. However the split screen photography is very off putting
Published 9 months ago by C. J. Sanders

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