![]() Learning how it came together and was received is really interesting. The first, from Ultimate Classic Rock discusses the story and history of the song. There are a couple of features about Eight Miles High that I want to bring together. Anyone can put the song on today and connect with it. Although it does evoke the sounds and sights of the 1960s, it has not dated at all. It is a classic that still gets played a lot to this day. Appearing on The Byrds’ third studio album, Fifth Dimension, Eight Miles High became their third and final U.S. It did get to fourteen on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number twenty-four in the U.K. Because of a ban, the song did struggle to make a big chart impact. It does have this mix of the laidback and the psychedelic that one can easily link to drugs. Listening to Eight Miles High, and it is impossible to not hear the drug mentions! The title alone makes me think of the band feeling high after smoking weed. Eight Miles High did get banned by some radio stations because of the possible drug references in the song. One of the first psychedelic Rock tracks, it definitely opened doors and minds for other artists. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the best and defining songs of the 1960s, Eight Miles High was released on 14th March, 1966. Listen back to The Beatles’ work on Rubber Soul (1965) and Revolver (1966), and Eight Miles High sort of fits into that mould. Gene Clark, Jim (Roger) McGuinn and David Crosby, I often think The Byrds’ Eight Miles High was inspired by The Beatles. ![]()
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