The BMI London Awards were held last night at London's Dorchester Hotel, honoring the most performed songs on U.S. radio and television stations over the last year. Those being honored are members of PRS for Music, the U.K.'s performing rights society, who are also represented by BMI in the United States.The Icon Award went to Donovan as an artist who has had “a unique and indelible inf.
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Donovan, famous for '60s pop hits such as "Hurdy Gurdy Man" and "Mellow Yellow," has announced plans to open the Invincible Donovan University, where students will adhere to the principles of transcendental meditation."I know it sounds like an airy-fairy hippie dream to go on about '60s peace and love," said the 61-year-old singer, who was born Donovan Leitch in the Maryhill area of Glasgow. "B...
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Clive Davis is a legend in the recording industry. While at CBS, he signed Donovan, Janis Joplin, Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Chicago, Billy Joel, Aerosmith and many more. With Arista, he was instrumental in the careers of Barry Manilow, Whitney Houston, Patti Smith and Sean "Puffy/P-Diddy" Combs.Davis used his musical knowledge and business savvy to guide some of the great careers in popular...
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Donovan will be given the BMI Icon Award at this year's annual London Awards, set for Tuesday, October 6 at the Dorchester Hotel. The awards recognize the U.K. and European songwriters and publishers associated with Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) whose songs received the most airplay in the past year in the U.S.The Icon Award is given to those songwriters who have "bestowed a uniqu...
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Donovan spoke to reporters at the MIDEM International Music Conference in Cannes, France on Monday, telling them that the Internet is what he and his contemporaries dreamed about in the 60's."The dream of the '60s, of me and John Lennon and the others, was how do we speak to everybody on the planet at the same time? The first answer was via satellite, but that didn't connect to everyone. Then...
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