In your head think about the song “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”…whose voice do you hear singing the first line?
I’m not asking what your favourite version is, just the version that your brain has set as default.
You have quite a list of options:
Bob Dylan
Eric Clapton
Warren Zevon
Nick Cage
and a million others
Who do you hear?
Mine is Dolly Parton’s, featuring Ladysmith Black Mambazo…just because it’s so odd.
Guns and Roses.
Andrew Eldritch of The Sisters of Mercy is my Knockin on Heaven’s Door voice.
Bob Dylan.
Clapton’s - but only because its the only one I know…
Dylan.
Another for GnR.
Guns n Roses, Eric Clapton, or just my own version.
Jerry Garcia
Guns ‘n’ Roses
GnR
GnR. I also have a live recording of Dylan with Tom Petty - it has a cool harmonica intro. But primarily GnR.
Clapton, then GnR.
GnR. In my early teens I thought they wrote it.
I hear Clapton’s, followed by GnR
Dylan
Another vote for His Bobness. As I’ve alluded to elsewhere, I’m firmly in the “nobody sings Dylan like Dylan” camp.
Television (live), then Danny & Dusty.
Definitely Dylan.
Originally Dylan, but then at the end it segues into Warren Zevon’s haunted “Let me in! Let me in!”