Guns N Roses - Knocking On Heavens Door 1991 (Live at Maracana Stadium - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil)

Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door“ is a song by Bob Dylan, written for the soundtrack of the 1973 film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Released as a single two months after the film’s release, 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 Guns N’ Roses, Eric Clapton, Randy Crawford and more. Described by Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin as “an exercise in splendid simplicity“,[1] the song features two verses, each of which represent the film’s title characters and American frontier legends Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.[citation needed]