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"This Wheel's on Fire" is a song written by Bob Dylan and Rick Danko. [1] It was originally recorded by Dylan and the Band during their 1967 sessions, portions of which (including this song) comprised the 1975 album, The Basement Tapes. [2] The Band's own version appeared on their 1968 album, Music from Big Pink. [3]
The song also reached number 13 in Canada. [2] Brian Auger and the Trinity and Driscoll's joint album, Open, billed as Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity, reached number 12 in the UK Albums Chart the same year. [1] The group and Driscoll opened for Led Zeppelin at the Rose Palace in Pasadena, California on 2 and 3 May 1969. [3]
"This Wheel's on Fire" reached number five in the United Kingdom in June 1968, number 13 in Canada, [2] and Bubbled Under the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States at #106 that August. With distortion, the imagery of the title and the group's dress and performance, this version came to represent the psychedelic era in British rock music.
"This Wheel's On Fire" closes the album "at a peak of sinister mystery", according to Gill, who suggests that it brings the record back to the motorcycle crash that created the circumstances for The Basement Tapes: "It is virtually impossible not to see the locked wheel of Dylan's Triumph 500 in the title, the very wheel upon which his own ...
"Absolutely Fabulous" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released by Parlophone and Spaghetti Records as a single for 1994's Comic Relief under the artist name "Absolutely Fabulous"; it is based on the BBC sitcom of the same name created by Jennifer Saunders and features sound bites taken from the first series of the show.
Through the Looking Glass is the eighth studio album by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. The album is a collection of cover versions. It was co-produced with Mike Hedges and released in March 1987 on Polydor. Through the Looking Glass included two singles; "This Wheel's on Fire" and "The Passenger".
The Basement Tapes is the sixteenth album by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and his second with the Band.It was released on June 26, 1975, by Columbia Records.Two-thirds of the album's 24 tracks feature Dylan on lead vocals backed by the Band, and were recorded in 1967, eight years before the album's release, in the lapse between the release of Blonde on Blonde and the subsequent ...
Wheels on Fire may refer to: "This Wheel's on Fire" (song), a song by Bob Dylan and Rick Danko; Wheels on Fire (band), an American rock band; This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of The Band, the autobiography of musician Levon Helm "Wheels on Fire," a song by The Magic Numbers from their 2005 album The Magic Numbers