Eight Miles High
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"Eight Miles High" (1966) is a song by Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn, and David Crosby, first appearing as a single from 1966 by the rock band The Byrds. The single peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was included as well on their album Fifth Dimension, released on July 18, 1966. In tandem with its b-side, "Why," written by McGuinn and Crosby, the song was instrumental in ushering in a new strain of rock and roll in the mid-1960s, that of psychedelic rock.
Several music writers have identified "Eight Miles High" as the first popular psychedelic rock song, alongside "Shapes of Things" (1966) by the Yardbirds.
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