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unusual facts about Knockin' Boots


Knockin' Boots

Rapper Tone Lōc, who had discovered Candyman, provided a spoken intro for the song and also appeared in the song's music video.


Angela Aki

Angela Aki was chosen to sing Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" with her original Japanese lyrics for the movie Heaven's Door, and was chosen to write and perform the theme song titled “Ai no Kisetsu” for the NHK morning drama “Tsubasa” broadcast from March 30, 2009.

Arthur Louis

Louis's reggae influenced interpretations of songs such as Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (1974) and "I Shall Be Released" (1998), have confirmed him as a notable interpreter of Dylan's songs and other work has established Louis as a leading reggae, blues and rock crossover artist.

Ellesmere Castle

It alternated between the English and Welsh crowns until the 1240s when it passed to the le Strange family whose origins were in Knockin, Shropshire.

Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn

Around this time he married Hawise, daughter of John Lestrange of Knockin.

Khimki Forest

Asking Russian rock star Yuri Shevchuk, an outspoken critic of the highway's planned route, who had made headlines confronting Vladimir Putin in a face-to-face meeting in May, to join him on stage at a concert, Bono and Shevchuk sang a Bob Dylan tune (Knockin' on Heaven's Door) in front of 60,000 people.

Knockin

Knockin is also home to one of the radio telescopes that make up the Jodrell Bank MERLIN (Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network) radio telescope array linking six observing stations that together form a powerful telescope with an effective aperture of over 217 kilometres.

Knockin' Doorz Down

In the music video, directed by Benny Mathews, the third verse is rapped by Pimp C instead of Lil Keke.

Lianna Rose

Her debut album, Soak Up The World released in October 2008, resulted in her first single "Jack" featuring in the Australian film Charlie & Boots starring Paul Hogan and Shane Jacobson.

Live sådan

Live sådan contains two songs not written by Gasolin' themselves: "Keep on Knockin'" by Perry Bradford and made famous by Little Richard, and "Sort, sort, sort" which is an old Danish folk song.

Madog Crypl

Madog married Gwenllian daughter of Ithel Fychan of Halkin and had a son Gruffydd of Rhuddallt, who was married on 8 July 1304 at the age of six to Elizabeth daughter of John LeStrange of Knockin.


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