Musician Donovan is returning to his home city of Glasgow for a weekend celebrating a remarkable career spanning more than 60 years.
The singer-songwriter, who turned 80 earlier this year, will meet fans, perform and look back on his life in music during two events in the city this month.
Donovan will first appear at Assai Records in Glasgow on Saturday 14 November for an in-store performance and signing session.
The event also marks the 60th anniversary of his landmark 1966 album Sunshine Superman, one of the records which helped establish the Glasgow-born musician as an international star.
Fans will have the chance to see Donovan perform inside the record shop before he signs copies of his classic albums and the anniversary edition of Sunshine Superman. The Assai event has already sold out.
A day later, Donovan will take part in a much larger homecoming celebration at the Village Hotel Glasgow.
The Donovan Jubilee takes place on Sunday 15 November and has been billed as a celebration of his 80th year and the 60th birthday of Sunshine Superman.
The event runs through the day and includes a signing session and an opportunity for fans to have their photograph taken with the singer.
Writing ahead of his return, Donovan told fans: “Glasgow! Wow. Thank you to all that have your tickets so far. I can’t wait to meet you all!”
Donovan Philips Leitch was born in Maryhill to the north of Glasgow, on 10 May 1946 and moved with his family to St Vincent Street in Anderston when he was around one.
He has recalled hearing Scottish and Irish folk songs during his childhood in Glasgow, an early musical influence that would follow him throughout his career.
He told arts journalist Nicola Meigher in 2017: “At first it was quite dark, when I started looked back on Glasgow.
“But then I remembered the songs that the mammy sang, the aunties sang, the uncles sang. And then I realised that in all that darkness and oppression and poverty – so-called – it wasn’t really dark at all.
“There was music. There was poetry. There were songs. And that was everything.”
His family moved to Hertfordshire when he was 10, before Donovan emerged in the 1960s as one of Scotland’s most internationally successful songwriters.
His breakthrough came with Catch the Wind in 1965. It was followed by songs including Colours, Sunshine Superman, Mellow Yellow, Hurdy Gurdy Man and Atlantis.
Sunshine Superman reached number one on the Billboard chart in the US in 1966 and helped push Donovan beyond his folk roots into the psychedelic sound with which he became closely associated.
He became part of the extraordinary circle of musicians reshaping popular music in the 1960s and was friends with The Beatles. During their time in India in 1968, Donovan famously helped teach John Lennon a finger-picking guitar technique which Lennon later used on songs including Dear Prudence and Julia.
His contribution to music was recognised when he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame two years later.
Six decades after Sunshine Superman, Donovan is now bringing the celebrations back to the city where his story began.