When the Byrds kicked off the second phase of their multistage career in March 1966 with the release of "Eight Miles High," they also happened to launch a new chapter in rock history.

It overlooks the beauty of the universe. That's what the song is about." Listen to the Byrds Perform 'Eight Miles High' "Mr. Spaceman," the album's last single, was written by McGuinn as a tongue ...

Eight Miles High demonstrates the power of a good arrangment ... but was actually inspired by The Byrds' first trip to London in 1965, the "rain grey town/ known for its sound".

With brilliant arrangements of Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” and Pete Seeger’s “Turn, Turn, Turn,” they forged the folk-rock sound of the mid-’60s. Inspired by jazz saxophonist ...

When former bandmate Roger McGuinn encouraged him to weigh in on '80s alt-rock icons Hüsker Dü's snarling, almost-unintelligible punk cover of the Byrds' 1966 hit "Eight Miles High," Croz was ...

As a result of Clark’s departure, Fifth Dimension has a sound quite different from previous Byrds records. (The album includes only one song with Gene—”Eight Miles High.”) For the first ...

CHRIS HILLMAN: What I’m most proud of about The Byrds is that within 18 months we went from covering Bob Dylan to making “Eight Miles High”. We had grown as musicians. We stumbled into ...

Listening to “Eight Miles High,” even 40 years after it was an ... laughs Roger McGuinn, founding singer and guitarist of The Byrds. “She just didn’t get it. We said, ‘That is the ...

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