Scottish import Donovan wrote and recorded this Billboard Charts-topping single, released in July of 1966 and a quintessential work of ’60s summer psychedelia. “Sunshine Superman” soon wound up as the title track on the singer-songwriter’s third album. Backed by future Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page on electric guitar and John Paul Jones on bass, it not only pays homage to Superman but to his Justice League teammate Green Lantern as well. The song in turn was paid the ultimate homage to any piece of Superman-related music when it inspired comics writer (and fellow Scot) Grant Morrison to create an African-American take on the Man of Steel named Sunshine Superman during his run on DC’s Animal Man. Morrison would go on to write one of the most acclaimed of all Superman comic runs with All-Star Superman.