Early Life
Donovan was born in Maryhill, Glasgow, to a Catholic mother, Winifred (née Phillips), a factory worker, and a Protestant father, Donald Leitch, a Rolls Royce factory employee. He contracted polio as a child. The disease, and subsequent treatment, left him with a limp. In 1956, his family moved to Little Berkhamsted near Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Influenced by his family's love for folk music, he began playing guitar at 14. He enrolled in art school but dropped out soon afterwards, determined to live out his beatnik aspirations by going out on the road.
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