Donovan – Wear Your Love Like Heaven (1967)

Holidays continue under the blazing, 20 degree, heat of a Cambridgeshire summer ….. pass the factor 50 and a Pina Colada please.

Today, I have been mostly listening to Donovan. Not sure I had every realised how consistently good he was. The clear influence on bands like Belle and Sebastian is clear but some of the music is also reminiscent of that which accompanied John Cooper Clarke’s seminal LPs of the late 1970s. No, really.

But, I couldn’t look further than this.

“Wear Your Love Like Heaven” is 2 and a half minutes of pop perfection from the “A Gift from a Flower to the Garden” LP of 1967.  Just wish it was twice as long.

The Donovan original than a wonderful solo, instrumental version from some guy on YouTube – fantastic!