Editing Donovan (section)

==Early life==
Donovan was born on 10 May 1946, in [[Maryhill]], Glasgow<ref name=international>{{cite book|title=The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002| publisher=Europa Publications|edition= 4|year=2002|isbn=978-1857431612|author=Andy Gregory|page=141|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZIjT8PgJMEC&pg=PA141}}</ref><ref name=allmusic>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/donovan-mn0000799053/biography|title=Artist Biography [Donovan]|first=Jason|last=Ankeny|publisher=Allmusic.com|access-date=30 November 2014}}</ref> to Donald and Winifred (née Phillips) Leitch. His grandmothers were Irish.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/how-donovan-and-coco-his-granddaughter-caught-their-wind-35583500.html|title=How Donovan and Coco, his granddaughter, caught their wind|website=Independent.ie|date=3 April 2017 |access-date=4 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.healthywealthynwise.com/article.aspx?author=Janet%20Attwood%20and%20Christine%20Comaford&title=Donovan%20Leitch%20-%20Reconnect%20with%20Your%20Natural%20Harmony&Article=5530|author=Janet Attwood and Christine Comaford|title=Cover Story Article|publisher=Healthywealthynwise.com|access-date=1 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100206043559/http://healthywealthynwise.com/article.aspx?author=Janet%20Attwood%20and%20Christine%20Comaford&title=Donovan%20Leitch%20-%20Reconnect%20with%20Your%20Natural%20Harmony&Article=5530|archive-date=6 February 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> He contracted [[polio]] as a child. The disease and treatment left him with a limp.<ref name="Hurdy Gurdy Man">{{cite web|url=http://www.loti.com/sixties_music/Donovan_Leitch.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080109104337/http://www.loti.com/sixties_music/Donovan_Leitch.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 January 2008|title=The Hurdy Gurdy Man of the Psychedelic Sixties – Donovan Leitch|last=Prager|first=Felice|work=Rewind the Fifties|publisher=loti.com|access-date=11 November 2009}}</ref> His family moved to the [[New towns in the United Kingdom|new town]] of [[Hatfield, Hertfordshire]], England. Influenced by his family's love of [[folk music]], he began playing the guitar at 14. He enrolled in art school but soon dropped out, to live out his [[beatnik]] aspirations by going on the road.<ref name=artschooldropout>{{cite book|last=Donovan|first=Leitch|title=The Hurdy Gurdy Man|year=2006|publisher=Arrow|isbn=0-09-948703-9}}</ref>