Music video description
"A Horse with No Name" is a song by the rock bandAmerica, written by Dewey Bunnell. The song was the group's first popular single and was released in Europe in late 1971, and less than a year later in the United States as well. It became a commercial success very quickly, topping the charts in many countries. It also earned gold status from the Recording Industry Associaton of America.
There was no place for the song "A Horse with No Name" on the band's debut album America, and the release itself was only moderately successful. The song was originally called "Desert Song." The "horse with no name" of the title was a metaphor for a vehicle to escape from life to a place filled with silence. The B-side of the single featured the song "Sandman," or optionally "Ebery I Meet Is from California." Some radio stations banned the song "A Horse with No Name" from airing due to alleged drug references. After all, in American slang the word horse is used to describe heroin. Despite this, the song reached the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 list.