Knockin 'on Heaven's Door (song)
| Knockin 'on Heaven's Door | |
|---|---|
| Bob Dylan | |
| publication | July 13, 1973 |
| length | 2:32 |
| Genre (s) | Folk rock |
| Author (s) | Bob Dylan |
| Label | Columbia Records |
| album | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid |
Knockin 'on Heaven's Door is a folk-rock - song by Bob Dylan , he for the album Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid , the soundtrack of the film of the same wrote from 1973. The text refers to the feelings of the aging Sheriff Baker, who is shot and awaits death in the presence of his wife. In 2004 the piece was voted number 190 by representatives of the music industry, and the music magazine Rolling Stone included it in the list of the 500 best rock songs of all time .
Cover versions
Originally recorded as a relatively slow song, the song was later covered in many speeds and styles, with the most famous versions being Eric Clapton's 1975 and Guns N 'Roses 1991. In 1997 the German rock band Selig recorded a new version that served as the title song of the film of the same name , which is about two cancer patients who enjoy life again shortly before the end of their lives.
With Dylan's consent, Dunblane musician Ted Christopher wrote a new verse for the song in memory of the children and their teacher who died in the 1996 school massacre in Dunblane . The recording, in which Mark Knopfler plays guitar and brothers and sisters of the victims sing the chorus, reached number 1 on the British charts; the proceeds went to children's charities.
The song Rise by the singer Gabrielle is a specialty . It is based on a sample from Knockin 'On Heaven's Door authorized by Bob Dylan and uses the harmony foundation of this song.
Related projects
The German cabaret group Herbert Knebel's Affentheater parodied the piece under the title Nackend am Baggerloch . Mike Krüger published a version under the title Nack-, Nack-, Nackig an der Himmelstür . The German band Quietschboys sang Nag-, Nag-, Naggisch middm hadde Roer in the Hessian dialect. Ina Müller published a Low German version with her own text (Lockiget Hoor) on her CD Die Schallplatte - nied opleggt (2009), which contains only Low German cover versions of international hits.
The Erlangen fun metal band JBO wrote the 8-second song Knockin 'on Heaven's Door, which consists of nothing more than five knocking ("Knockin'"). A variant with their own text provided by Nina Hagen and Herman Brood can be heard in the 1979 film Cha Cha . The two sang the song - but with the original lyrics - several times live.