If you’ve never heard a hurdy-gurdy before, you’re in for a treat. Not many people have, since they’re instruments which are uncommon outside of some eastern European communities.

Members of Led Zeppelin helped create Donovan’s “Hurdy Gurdy Man” in the studio. The tune paved the way for a lot of the band’s later work. Donovan himself argued that Jimmy Page’s ...

As many pointed out in the comments, this blurs the line between a guitar and a hurdy gurdy.

What can you tell us about the 1968 sessions for ‘Hurdy Gurdy Man’? I got to know Jimmy a little bit later [in the early 1980s], when he lived near Windsor, in the house he bought, twice ...