4/12/2023 0 Comments Mellow yellow singer"This celebration will also highlight Scotland's great role in poetry and art and design. This is the place where I began and has a tradition or music, poetry, art, history and love and the work I loved the most comes from my background in Scotland. "I was asked if I wanted to hold an exhibition of some sorts to celebrate my fiftieth outwith Scotland but there is no other place than Glasgow. What he was doing with his art was what we were doing with his songs. One thing led to another and we found we connected immediately. "One day he heard a song which I wrote from buying a Victorian Edwardian album and a letter arrived from him with the envelope illustrated too. It seemed like we were on the same wavelength or path or journey or imagining the same pictorial way of looking at life. He said: "John Patrick Byrne as I know him because he used to sign his pictures Patrick will curate this exhibition. My music reflects so many social changes and so many peoples lives are reflected in song."ĭonovan wanted John to be involved as he shares many years with him, after Patrick, as he was then known contacted him with illustrations to accompany his early songs. "It will follow the journey of Donovan which is a kind of educated journey of major movements, social, artistic and spiritual movements of the mid sixties to the new Millennia. It has to be more than just that and I think we can pull it off. The Sunshine Superman and Mellow Yellow singer announced his plans to host an exhibition curated by his friend, artist and Slab Boys writer John, who designed his album covers, at an exclusive lunch to celebrate his 50 years in music at Glasgow's House For An Art Lover.ĭonovan, now 69, said: "We have plans to present an exhibit at House For An Art Lover and it will not just contain guitars, memorabilia, original song lyric and a few album covers. LEGENDARY singer Donovan is teaming up with his old friend John Byrne to host an exhibition of his life and work at a Scots art house.
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