The twangy grandeur of Zal Yanovsky’s big guitar riff on the Lovin’ Spoonful’s You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice made it a Top 10 hit in the winter of 1965-’66. The track also caught the ear of Brian ...

Zal Yanovsky, 57, a guitar player with the 1960s group the Lovin’ Spoonful, died of a heart attack Friday in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Yanovsky founded the band with singer-guitarist John Sebastian.

In retrospective critical pieces about the best and most adventurous music of the 1960s, there's one band that often gets left out and always stands out to me as a glaring omission: the Lovin' ...

Zal Yanovsky, a guitar player with the Lovin' Spoonful, a 1960s group known for hits such as "Daydream," "Do You Believe in Magic" and "Summer in the City," has died at age 57, his family said.

Is it wrong to invoke a John Sebastian solo tune — “Welcome Back” — to welcome back the Lovin’ Spoonful this weekend, at a Los Angeles show, for the first time in decades? It is wrong, in Sebastian’s ...