Showing posts with label Sky Saxon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sky Saxon. Show all posts

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Sky Saxon RIP

Sky Saxon, leader of 60s "flower punks" the Seeds and author of one of my favorite songs of all time (see below), passed away this morning. Literally a few moments after I heard the news, CNN reported that Farrah Fawcett also met her demise today, so it's looking unlikely that Sky's passing will get any coverage from any mainstream media outlets. This is unfortunate as surely the composer of the below made a considerable contribution to culture:




Update:
Obviously, just a few a hours later, even bigger news broke.