Sky Saxon of the Seeds dies

June 25, 2009 Sky Saxon, lead singer and founder of the 1960s band the Seeds who had a Top 40 hit in 1967 with "Pushin' Too Hard," has died after a brief illness. Another hit single of 1967 was "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" and their song "Mr. Farmer" was included in the soundtrack for the movie "Almost Famous." All the bikers around San Diego thought the Seeds were apocalypse, then, famed rock critic Lester Bangs wrote in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll.

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