Why was England Dan called that? Is England Dan still alive?

Danny Wayland Seals was an American musician. The younger brother of Seals and Crofts member Jim Seals,

he first gained fame as one half of the soft rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley, who charted nine singles between 1976 and 1980, including the No. 2 Billboard Hot 100 hit “I’d Really Love to See You Tonight”.

Why was England Dan called that?

It was Jim’s idea to incorporate the name “England Dan” into England Dan & John Ford Coley.

The nickname was a reference to the fact that, as a youngster, Dan had fixated on the Beatles and briefly affected an English accent.

Is England Dan still alive?

In 2008, Seals completed radiation treatments for mantle cell lymphoma at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville and at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and received a stem cell transplant at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Maryland.

He died at the age of 61, on March 25, 2009, at his daughter’s home in Nashville.