Knocking On Heaven's Door, how Bob Dylan changed movie soundtracks forever
Today marks our ninth month making this podcast and we can't be any more grateful! This is our 16th episode and it will be the last one of Season 1. Don’t worry, we’re coming back in 2021 with more Uncovering the Cover! We want to close our first season with a bang! A hit! A knock! And particularly a knock on heaven’s door! When Bob Dylan wrote "Knocking On Heaven's Door" he didn't mean it as a religious metaphor; in fact, this is a story about villains, cowboys, murder, suffering, the old west, movies and rock n roll. A song which was inspired by a sheriff who’s crying out and begging his wife - and not his mama - to put an end to his suffering, and it’s the subject of so many covers, of which perhaps the one from the Guns N Roses is the most popular in recent decades. But if it wasn’t for Billy the Kid, the famous outlaw who in the Wild West, murdered eight men in 1881 before being shot and killed at the age of 21, this song might have never even existed. So, what does a rock band who first played this song during their concerts in 1987, like Guns N Roses have to do with Billy the Kid, who lived more than a century before them? ------> If you need to, you can read a full transcript of this episode by CLICKING HERE or going to PinzonDiego.com/podcast. ------> Follow us on Instagram to stay in touch with us, @uncoveringthecover. This is our last full episode of Season 1 of Uncovering the Cover, but we'll have a few surprises for you during the next weeks. We'll be back in FULL FORCE next year! Thank you for listening!