Legacy
The song also contains the phrase "purple rain," later the title of a 1984 song, album, and film (and the tour that supported both the album and film), for the artist Prince. Although it is not known if there is actually any connection, both Mikel Toombs of the The San Diego Union and Bob Kostanczuk of the Post-Tribune, have written that Prince got the title directly from "Ventura Highway".
The song's opening guitar riff and musical hook is sampled throughout Janet Jackson's 2001 song "Someone to Call My Lover" by the production team of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis who were influenced by America and "Ventura Highway" listening to KDWB 63 AM (Top 40) growing up in Minneapolis, Minnesota (along with their close friend, musician Prince). Bunnell said the use of the sample from Ventura Highway and the production by Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis and Janet Jackson boosted sales for America.
The song won many fans, including the pro-wrestler-turned-politician, Jesse Ventura: "We went and played at Governor Jesse Ventura's inaugural out in Minneapolis. He asked us to — his wife is a horse lady, and she'd always loved A Horse With No Name, and he had adopted this name Ventura. So when he put together his cast of characters for his big inaugural celebration, he wanted us to come and play two songs, which we did".
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)