![]() ![]() Top 20 hit, and was their last release before the departure of Clark, who was 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. ![]() When it was released, it was generally banned from the radio because of the assumed drug reference. The failure of "Eight Miles High" to reach the Billboard Top 10 is usually attributed to the broadcasting ban, but some commentators have suggested the song's complexity and uncommercial nature were greater factors. Roger McGuinn denies this and that is good enough for me. 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. 1 2 A recording of Dylan performing the song in September 1971 was released on the Bob Dylans. radio ban shortly after its release, following allegations published in the broadcasting trade journal the Gavin Report regarding perceived drug connotations in its lyrics. ' You Aint Goin Nowhere ' is a song written by American musician Bob Dylan in 1967 in Woodstock, New York, during the self-imposed exile from public appearances that followed his Jmotorcycle accident. Ha proseguito la sua carriera come cantante e musicista solista con alterni risultati e successi, partecipando spesso a concerti di colleghi, fra cui Bob Dylan. 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. Roger McGuinn, nato James Joseph McGuinn III (Chicago, 13 luglio 1942). Musically influenced by sitar player Ravi Shankar and jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, the song was influential in developing the musical styles of psychedelia and raga rock. It was first released as a single on March 14, 1966. Roger McGuinn’s 12-string solo in Eight Miles High is a milestone in rock history and has elements of both John Coltrane’s modal jazz innovations and the drone of an Indian raga a tonal adventure that foresaw the trend of fusion and world music two decades later. Eight Miles High" is a song by the American rock band the Byrds, written by Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn (a.k.a. In this 1997 clip from the popular British music series Later with Jools Holland, McGuinn plays the Byrds classic Eight Miles High, co-written by McGuinn and band mates David Crosby and Gene Clark, and originally recorded for the 1966 album Fifth Dimension. ![]()
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