The first Australian male artist to ever hold both single and album chart #1 positions in the UK simultaneously.

His favorite songs are "Come Together" by The Beatles, "Love's About To Change My Heart" by Donna Summer, "Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye" by Ella Fitzgerald, "Big Time" by Peter Gabriel, "Vertigo" by U2 and "Woman In Chains" by Tears For Fears (feat. Oleta Adams). (Source: BBC Radio 2 "Tracks of My Years").

Tim Rice was so impressed with Donovan's performance as Joseph during the 1991-1992 West End London Theatre run of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (1991), that he pushed heavily for Donovan to play Simba in The Lion King (1994). But Jeffrey Katzenberg refused as Donovan wasn't a big enough name for an American audience.