Hello my people, I hope everyone is super well, I want to thank you all for supporting this blog where we share about music, especially rock music, which at this time I am finishing with this series of what is the complete editorial of legendary rock songs. This time I present this incredible song, which is one of the most known worldwide in music, a classic of pop culture, written and performed by vocalist Bob Dylan, a song that has been covered by many singers around the world, and which has transcended generations. Enjoy the report.
Disc:Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid.
Year:1973.
To speak of Dylan is to speak of an unattainable creator, a true master as a musician, as a poet, as a writer... Dylan, with a pen in one hand and a guitar in the other, is capable of giving life to true wonders in song form. His collection of memorable pieces is infinite, his number of legendary songs, uncountable. For all this and much more, old Bod is one of the definitive artists of the 20th century, an immeasurable master of popular culture.
The purists got on his back when he decided to electrify folk music, but rock lovers will be eternally grateful to him for the number of memorable songs he composed throughout his life, which have served as inspiration for so many bands and musicians. “Knockin' On Heaven's Door”, recorded for the soundtrack of ‘Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid’ in 1973, is perhaps one of his most emotional creations, which Dylan sings with his nasal voice accompanied by his guitar and a soft chorus while knocking on heaven's door.
There have been many versions of the song, from Eric Clapton's not too successful one to the one that Grateful Dead's leader, Jerry Garcia, performed live with his band. Although surely the rock public will remember the famous cover that Guns N' Roses did in the second volume of Use Your Illusion, turning the song into an epic hymnic piece in the tone of other magnificent compositions of that double album; Axl Rose doubling his histrionic voices in different tones, a great guitar work, and even an intermediate fragment in which a telephone conversation sounds.
The Guns used to play it live since their beginnings (in fact in their mythical Ritz concert they dedicated it to a friend who died of an overdose, Todd Crew, member of the angelic band Jetboy), but it was not until Use Your Illusion that they decided to record it. When the band performed in 1992 at the tribute concert to Freddie Mercury at Wembley Stadium, they played this song, perhaps in memory of the late vocalist of Queen, and soon after released it as a single, reaching number two in the English charts and promoting in the booklet of the single the donation of funds to the organization against AIDS that carried the name of Mercury and to which all the proceeds of that mega-event went.
In that live performance, and with the backing of his backing singers, Axl invited the audience to sing the famous chorus as he used to do before shouting to the band “Gimme some reggae!” and the whole group improvised in Jamaica's most famous musical language. Although perhaps the most heartfelt and emotional version of the song is the one recorded last year by American rocker Warren Zevon for what he knew would be his last album, “The Wind”, Zevon was ill with lung cancer, and died shortly after the album was released, giving the song a special meaning, as if he was asking for a place in heaven. Someday we will all knock on his doors; until then let's enjoy the beautiful things in life. Undoubtedly this beautiful song is among them.
My people I hope you like this editorial work, this incredible song, I leave here below the link to the video to see and hear it will not regret it because it is one of the best rock ballads in the world, a total classic. A thousand blessings to all and see you in a new post with more of the legendary rock songs.
Versiòn Guns and Roses.
