Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Film/TV show Year Performer
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 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
Shake Rattle & Roll 2 ( segment Aswang ) 1990 Guns N ' Roses
Rush 1991 Bob Dylan
Total 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 Cool 2005 Bob Dylan
Las Vegas ( episode 45 , Letters , Lawyers and Loose Women ) 2005 Bob Dylan
Six Feet Under ( episode 61 , All Alone ) 2005 Bob Dylan
ER ( episode 260 , Darfur ) 2006 Scoob Serious
Salvador ( Puig Antich ) 2006 Bob Dylan
I 'm Not There 2007 Antony & the Johnsons
Supernatural ( episode 35 , Houses of the Holy ) 2007 Bob Dylan
Cold Case ( episode 84 , Blood on the Tracks ) 2007 Bob Dylan
Soundtrack inclusions
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, the song features two verses, each of which represent the film's title characters and American frontier legends Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.