Eight Miles High

 Listen Now
RS Cover Reprints
Buy the Album at Rhino.com

Written by: Gene Clark, Roger McGuinn, David Crosby
Produced by: Allen Stanton
Released: April '66 on Columbia
Charts: 9 weeks
Top spot: No. 14

A rare collaboration between three Byrds, it was supposedly about an airplane flight. McGuinn's mind-blowing twelve-string solo was inspired by John Coltrane's sax-playing and Rod Argent's piano on the Zombies' "She's Not There." "Of course it was a drug song," Crosby said. "We were stoned when we wrote it. We can also justifiably say that it wasn't a drug song, because it was written about the [plane] trip to London."

Appears on: Fifth Dimension (Legacy)

Next: Earth Angel

Back to RS 500 Albums!
Back to RS 500 Songs!