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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]
"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.
Brian Auger and the Trinity was a British band led by keyboardist Brian Auger.His duet with Julie Driscoll, the Bob Dylan/Rick Danko–penned "This Wheel's on Fire", was a number 5 hit on the 1968 UK Singles Chart.
"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.
All songs written by Robbie Robertson unless noted otherwise. "This Wheel's on Fire" (Bob Dylan, Rick Danko) performed by Guster – 3:24 "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" performed by Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers – 4:03 "It Makes No Difference" performed by My Morning Jacket – 6:19
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
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 ...