Step 1 : Introduction to the question "John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High" became an official state song of what U.S. state?"
"Rocky Mountain High" is a song written by John Denver and Mike Taylor about Colorado. It is one of the two official state songs of Colorado. Recorded by Denver in 1972, it went to #9 on the US Hot 100 in 1973. "Rocky Mountain High" is primarily inspired by John Denver's move to Aspen, Colorado three years earlier and his love for the state. The song was considered a major piece of 1970s pop culture, and became a well-associated piece of Colorado history. John Denver, died on this day in 1997 when his experimental amateur aircraft crashed into Monterey Bay on the California coast.
