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1973 song past Bob Dylan

"Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
Single past Bob Dylan
from the album Pat Garrett & Baton the Kid
B-side	"Turkey Chase"
Released	July 13, 1973
Recorded	February 1973
Genre	Folk stone gospel
Length	2:32
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(southward)	Bob Dylan
Producer(s)	Gordon Carroll
Bob Dylan singles chronology
"George Jackson" (1971) "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (1973) "A Fool Such as I" (1973)

"Knockin' on Sky'southward Door" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, written for the soundtrack of the 1973 movie Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Released every bit a single two months after the film's premiere, it became a worldwide hit, reaching the Top 10 in several countries. The song became one of Dylan's most popular and most covered post-1960s compositions, spawning covers from Eric Clapton, Guns N' Roses, Randy Crawford and more. Described by Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin as "an exercise in splendid simplicity",^[1] the song features two short verses, the lyrics of which comment directly on the scene in the film for which it was written: the death of a frontier lawman (Slim Pickens) who refers to his married woman (Katy Jurado) as "Mama".^[two]

It was ranked number 190 in 2004 past Rolling Stone magazine, in their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time,^[3] and number 192 in 2010.^[iv]

Musicians [edit]

• Bob Dylan: vocals, guitar^[5]
• Roger McGuinn: guitar^[five]
• Jim Keltner: drums^[v]
• Terry Paul: bass^[v]
• Carl Fortina: harmonium^[5]
• Ballad Hunter: backing vocals^[5]
• Donna Weiss: backing vocals^[v]
• Brenda Patterson: backing vocals^[5]

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Other Bob Dylan versions [edit]

According to his website, Dylan has performed the song in concert 460 times between its live debut in 1974 and its last outing in 2003.^[22] Some of these versions have appeared on Dylan'south live and Homemade Serial albums including:

• Earlier the Overflowing
• Bob Dylan at Budokan
• Dylan & the Dead
• The 30th Ceremony Concert Commemoration
• MTV Unplugged
• Xxx-Nine Years of Nifty Concert Performances
• The Rolling Thunder Revue

Eric Clapton and Arthur Louis versions [edit]

In January 1975 Eric Clapton played on Arthur Louis's recording of "Knockin' on Heaven'southward Door" which was bundled in a cross-over reggae style. Later on the recording sessions with Louis, Clapton recorded his own version of the song which was released as a single in August 1975 two weeks afterward Louis's version.^[23] Clapton's version made it to No. 38 on the Britain charts,^[24] simply the single was less successful in the U.S where information technology failed to nautical chart on the Billboard Hot 100 (although information technology reached on No. 109 on Cash Box's Looking Ahead chart^[25]). Clapton's 1996 boxed fix Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies features a performance of the song recorded in London in April 1977. In that location were also performances of the song included on the Journeyman (1990) and the One More Car, One More than Rider (2003) world tours. Several Clapton compilation albums also feature the song.^[26]

Guns N' Roses versions [edit]

"Knockin' on Heaven'due south Door"
Vocal by Guns N' Roses
from the album Days of Thunder (soundtrack)
Released	June 26, 1990
Genre	Difficult stone
Length	5:36
Label	Geffen
Songwriter(s)	Bob Dylan
Producer(s)	Mike Clink Guns N' Roses

"Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
1992 UK picture sleeve
Single by Guns N' Roses
from the album Use Your Illusion II
B-side	"Knockin' on Heavens Door" (live)
Released	May eleven, 1992 (1992-05-11) [27]
Genre	Difficult stone
Length	v:36
Label	Geffen
Songwriter(s)	Bob Dylan
Producer(south)	Mike Clink Guns Due north' Roses
Guns North' Roses singles chronology
"November Rain" (1992) "Knockin' on Sky's Door" (1992) "Yesterdays" (1992)

In 1987, American hard rock band Guns N' Roses started performing the song. A alive version of the song was released on the 12-inch unmarried of "Welcome to the Jungle" the same year. They recorded and released a studio version in 1990 for the soundtrack of the picture Days of Thunder that reached No. xviii on the Us Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart and No. 56 on Canada'due south RPM Top Singles nautical chart.

This studio recording was slightly modified for the ring'southward 1991 album Utilize Your Illusion Ii, discarding the responses in the second verse. Released as the second single from the anthology, it reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart and the New Zealand Singles Chart. Elsewhere, the single topped the charts of Portugal, Belgium, and the netherlands; it was the best-selling song of 1992 in the latter country. In Ireland, where the song too reached No. ane, information technology became Guns N' Roses' 3rd (and to date last) number-one unmarried too equally their ninth consecutive tiptop-5 hitting.

Their performance of the vocal at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992 was used equally the B-side for the single release and was besides included on their Alive Era: '87–'93 album, released in 1999.^[28] Another version was released on the video Use Your Illusion World Tour - 1992 in Tokyo II. The music video for this version of the song was directed by Andy Morahan.^[29]

Personnel [edit]

Guns N' Roses

• W. Axl Rose – lead vocals
• Slash – lead guitar
• Izzy Stradlin – rhythm guitar
• Duff McKagan – bass
• Matt Sorum – drums
• Lightheaded Reed – piano

Guest musicians

• The Waters – backing vocals

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Dunblane tribute [edit]

"Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
Single by Dunblane
A-side	"Throw These Guns Away"
Released	December 9, 1996 (1996-12-09) [66]
Recorded	1996
Studio	Abbey Route (London, Great britain)
Length	four:09
Label	BMG RCA
Songwriter(s)	Bob Dylan Ted Christopher
Producer(s)	Peter Cobbin

In 1996 and with the consent of Dylan, Scottish musician Ted Christopher wrote a new verse for "Knockin' on Sky'southward Door" in memory of the schoolchildren and teacher killed in the Dunblane school massacre. This has been, according to some sources, one of the few times Dylan has officially authorized anybody to add or modify the lyrics to one of his songs.^{[67] [68]}

This version of the song, featuring children from the village singing the chorus with the guitarist and producer of Dylan'south album Infidels (1983), Mark Knopfler, was released on December nine, 1996, in the United Kingdom and reached No. 1 on the UK and Scottish Singles Charts,^{[69] [70]} likewise as No. vi in Iceland and Ireland.^{[71] [72]} The proceeds went to charities for children.^[73] The song was featured on the compilation album Hits 97, where all royalties from the song were given to three charities.^[74]

Charts [edit]

Weekly charts [edit]

Year-terminate charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Other notable versions [edit]

"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" has been covered by over 150 artists.^[78] In addition to the versions already mentioned above, other notable covers include those by Neil Young, Lana Del Rey, Nick Cave, Patti Smith, Paul Simon, Bono, Antony and the Johnsons, Warren Zevon, Cat Power, Roger Waters, Tanya Donelly, Jerry Garcia, Avril Lavigne, Wyclef Jean, Television, Nina Hagen, Mudcrutch and Low.

Sampled version [edit]

Gabrielle's single "Rise" (2000) sampled from this song. Dylan liked "Ascension" so much that he allowed Gabrielle to utilise the sample for complimentary, while receiving a co-writer credit for providing the vocal's chord progression and vocal sample.^[79]

Soundtrack inclusions [edit]

Film/Tv show	Twelvemonth	Performer
Pat Garrett & Billy the Child	1973	Bob Dylan
Renaldo & Clara	1978	Bob Dylan & Roger McGuinn
Lethal Weapon 2	1989	Randy Crawford, Eric Clapton & David Sanborn
Days of Thunder	1990	Guns N' Roses
Milk shake Rattle & Roll 2 (segment "Aswang")	1990	Guns N' Roses
Rush	1991	Bob Dylan
Cold Water	1994	Bob Dylan
Full Balalaika Show (Soundtrack)	1994	Leningrad Cowboys and Alexandrov Ensemble
Lawn Dogs	1997	Bob Dylan
The Dybbuk of the Holy Apple Field	1997	Roger Waters
Knockin' on Heaven's Door	1997	Selig
Treasure Planet	2002	Bob Dylan
Windstruck	2004	Youme
Be Absurd	2005	Bob Dylan
Las Vegas (episode 45, "Letters, Lawyers and Loose Women")	2005	Bob Dylan
Six Feet Nether (episode 61, "All Alone")	2005	Bob Dylan
ER (episode 260, "Darfur")	2006	Scoob Serious
Salvador (Puig Antich)	2006	Bob Dylan
I'1000 Non There	2007	Antony & the Johnsons
Supernatural (episode 35, "Houses of the Holy")	2007	Bob Dylan
Common cold Case (episode 84, "Blood on the Tracks")	2007	Bob Dylan
Big Dearest (episode ii-08, "Kingdom Come")	2007	Bob Dylan
My Proper name is Earl	2008	Bob Dylan
Come Dio Comanda	2008	Antony & the Johnsons
Sky'south Door	2009	Angela Aki
Supernatural (episode 98, "Dark Side of the Moon")	2010	Bob Dylan
Lifted	2011	Uriah Shelton
Bluish Bloods (Season 4, Episode 7, "Cartoon Dead")	2013	Rick Devin[eighty]
The 100 (Season 2, ep. sixteen, "Blood Must Have Blood: Office 2")	2015	RAIGN
Sense8 (season 1, ep. 9, "Expiry Doesn't Allow Yous Say Cheerio")	2015	Antony & the Johnsons
Containment, episode five, "Like a Sheep Among Wolves"	2016	RAIGN
Misty [81]	2018	KLANG

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