Former Mercury Music Prize winner Antony Hegarty has spoken about his band's cover version of Bob Dylan's 1973 hit 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door.' The Antony & The Johnson's version of the song appears on the soundtrack to the new Todd Hayne's Dylan biopic 'I'm Not There' - alongside covers by Sonic Youth, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder amongst many others. Writing on his band's official website, frontman Antony Hegarty says: "Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan movie is coming out in November. I did a cover of 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door' with Kevin Barker for it. We did it slow and minor. I had started singing it by myself when i was in Australia at the end of the tour in January 2006. He adds: "Rob Moose was teaching me guitar and we bought a book of Dylan songs to learn, but then one day I guess I was just feeling really exhausted and deathy because I just started singing that song over and over, and I did it that night at the show."
Former Mercury Music Prize winner Antony Hegarty has spoken about his band’s cover version of Bob Dylan’s 1973 hit ‘Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door.’
The Antony & The Johnson‘s version of the song appears on the soundtrack to the new Todd Hayne’s Dylan biopic ‘I’m Not There’ – alongside covers by Sonic Youth, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder amongst many others.
Writing on his band’s official website, frontman Antony Hegarty says: “Todd Haynes‘ Bob Dylan movie is coming out in November. I did a cover of ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door’ with Kevin Barker for it. We did it slow and minor. I had started singing it by myself when i was in Australia at the end of the tour in January 2006.
He adds: “Rob Moose was teaching me guitar and we bought a book of Dylan songs to learn, but then one day I guess I was just feeling really exhausted and deathy because I just started singing that song over and over, and I did it that night at the show.”
