Jim Seals of Seals and Crofts dies aged 80
nme.comA post shared by Brady Seals (@bradysealsofficial)The duo caused controversy in 1974 with the release of ‘Unborn Child’, an anti-abortion song that was written shortly after the Roe V Wade Supreme Court decision.
It was banned by a number of radio stations.Speaking to Los Angeles Times in the ’90s, Seals said of the song: “It was our ignorance that we didn’t know that kind of thing was seething and boiling as a social issue.
On one hand we had people sending us thousands of roses, but on the other people were literally throwing rocks at us. If we’d known it was going to cause such disunity, we might have thought twice about doing it.”Seals and Crofts broke up in 1980, reuniting in 1991 and again in 2004, when they released their final album ‘Traces’.The cause of death is as yet unknown.
Seals is survived by his wife, Ruby, and their three children. See a number of tributes, including from Steve Miller, below.RIP Jim SealsSo long pal, thanks for all the beautiful music. – Steve pic.twitter.com/NfOWPMGchK— Steve Miller Band (@SMBofficial) June 7, 2022RIP Jimmy Seals. (Seals and Crofts) One of the all-time great songwriters and a wise, spiritual Baha’i titan!
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