"Rocky Mountain High" was released the day before Halloween in 1972 and became the title track of his album of the same name. It rose to the No. 9 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and took Denver a long nine months to fully complete. The track's success not only made it a road trip staple but would later be named one of the official state songs of Colorado.
"Imagine a moonless night in the Rockies in the dead of summer, and you have it. I had insisted to everybody that it was going to be a glorious display. Spectacular, in fact," he said.
Anyone who knows Denver's love for the state would know what the track was about, but it soon became controversial thanks to the government. At the time, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission was legally allowed to censor music that it felt was promoting drug use. As a result, multiple radio stations cautiously banned the track.
“This was obviously done by people who had never seen or been to the Rocky Mountains,” Denver said in his defense. “And also had never experienced the elation, celebration of life or the joy in living that one feels when he observes something as wondrous as the Perseid meteor shower on a moonless, cloudless night, when there are so many stars that you have a shadow from the starlight, and you are out camping with your friends, your best friends, and introducing them to one of nature’s most spectacular light shows for the first time.”
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