Bob Dylan – Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door [1973]

Anzitutto la scena lirica e crepuscolare del western ‘cult’ di Sam Peckinpah, “Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid“, in cui Bob Dylan interpreta “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door“, poi a seguire una sfilza (ben 11) di versioni diverse del brano da Dylan (da solo acustico oppure in compagnia di Tom Petty, Neil Young o Van Morrison) a Springsteen agli U2, dai Guns N’ Roses ai Grateful Dead, da Eric Clapton a Avril Lavigne.

 

 

dal film “Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid” di Sam Peckinpah

* La rivista Rolling Stone ha collocato il brano al N° 190 nella classifica delle migliori 500 canzoni di sempre.

 

 

 

 

 

Eric Clapton – Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, 1975

Bob Dylan & Neil Young – Helpless + Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, 1975

Bob Dylan & Tom Petty – Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, 1986

Grateful Dead & Joan Baez – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, 1987

Grateful Dead – Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, 1989

 

 

 

 

 

Guns N’ Roses – Knocking On Heaven’s Door (Live In Tokyo), 1992

Bob Dylan – Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (Unplugged), 1995

Bruce Springsteen – Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door – with Wolfgang Niedecken & Band (Live at Cafe Eckstein, Berlin), 1995

Bob Dylan & Van Morrison – Knocking on Heavens Door, 1998

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Avril Lavigne – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, 2003

U2 – Knocking On Heaven’s Door, 2010