Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” is a track by Bob Dylan, written for the soundtrack of the 1973 movie Pat Garrett and Billy the Child. Launched as a single two months after the movie’s launch, it turned a worldwide hit, reaching the High 10 in a number of international locations. The track turned one in every of Dylan’s hottest and most lined post-Sixties compositions, spawning covers from Weapons N’ Roses, Eric Clapton, Randy Crawford and extra. Described by Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin as “an train in splendid simplicity”, the track options two verses, every of which signify the movie’s title characters and American frontier legends Pat Garrett and Billy the Child.