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The Seeds: Borderline, London

Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 24 June 2003

THEY HAD A QUESTION about psychedelic California bands on University Challenge the other night, but the Seeds didn't get a mention. About all anybody can usually recall about them is that they scored a minor hit with 'Pushin' Too Hard' in 1965 when they were still a primitive garage band. By 1967 the Seeds had been sucked into Summer of Love euphoria, and frontman and songwriter Sky Saxon started writing tunes with titles like 'March of the Flower Children'. The group subsided slowly into oblivion.

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