The song's lyrics are, for the most part, about the group's flight to London in August 1965 and their accompanying English tour, as hinted at by the opening couplet: "Eight miles high and when you touch down, you'll find that it's stranger than known." Although commercial airliners fly at an altitude of six to seven miles, it was felt that "eight miles high" sounded more poetic than six and also recalled the title of the Beatles' song " Eight Days a Week". Top 20 hit, and was also their last release before the departure of Gene Clark, the band's principal songwriter at the time. "Eight Miles High" became the Byrds' third and final U.S. The song was also included on the band's third album, Fifth Dimension, which was released on July 18, 1966. "Eight Miles High" reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 24 in the UK Singles Chart. The failure of "Eight Miles High" to reach the Billboard Top 10 is usually attributed to the broadcasting ban, but some commentators have suggested that the song's complexity and uncommercial nature were greater factors. The band strenuously denied these allegations at the time, but in later years both Clark and Crosby admitted that the song was at least partly inspired by their own drug use. radio ban shortly after its release, following allegations published in the broadcasting trade journal the Gavin Report regarding perceived drug connotations in its lyrics. Accordingly, critics often cite "Eight Miles High" as being the first bona fide psychedelic rock song, as well as a classic of the counterculture era. Musically influenced by Ravi Shankar and John Coltrane, "Eight Miles High", along with its McGuinn and Crosby-penned B-side " Why", was influential in developing the musical styles of psychedelic rock, raga rock, and psychedelic pop. Roger McGuinn), and David Crosby and first released as a single on Ma( see 1966 in music). " Eight Miles High" is a song by the American rock band the Byrds, written by Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn (a.k.a. Psychedelic rock, raga rock, psychedelic pop As with everything we offer, guaranteed authentic with no time limit.January 24 and 25, 1966, Columbia Studios, Hollywood, CA McGuinn, Crosby, Michael Clarke, Chris Hillman, and Gene Clark have signed the two diary pages boldly, with Gene Clark adding "Byrds." Byrds autographs are quite rare, but this set–signed on the flight where they began writing their most important song–is truly museum quality. When we arrived in London, there was a huge crowd of screaming girls at the airport gate to meet the Byrds…" We obtained the autographs directly from Cooper, as well as her original TWA flight itinerary, her travel insurance policy for the flight, and copies of the relevant pages of her diary. I gave her my travel diary for them to sign. In her accompanying letter, Cooper writes "a few hours into the flight the stewardess came back to where we were sitting and told us the Byrds were in 1st class she asked if I would like their autographs. Also aboard was 17 year old Cindy Cooper, traveling with her family. While seated in first class, Jim McGuinn, David Crosby and Gene Clark began writing the song, inspired by the flight and their subsequent tour (read more about this at: ). A set of autographs of the original Byrds, signed for a teenager aboard a flight to London about which the band famously wrote "Eight Miles High." On Augthe Byrds flew to London on TWA flight 770, en route to their first British tour.
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