But the reason I post it is to illustrate how many songs, hit songs of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and beyond have celebrated death.  Kids wouldn't heed any message or lyrics from 

This song was written in 1973 by Bob Dylan 

"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, written for the soundtrack of the 1973 film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. 

I thought of the song after considering the lyrics to the 1967 song by British band, Procol Harum's song, "Whiter Shade of Pale."

We skipped the light fandango turned cartwheels 'cross the floor I was feeling kinda' seasick the crowd called out for more the room was humming harder as the ceiling flew away when we called out for another drink the waiter brought a tray and so it was that later as a mirror told its tale that her face at first just ghostly turned a whiter shade of pale She said: "There is no reason and the truth is plain to see" but I wandered through my playing cards would not let her be one of sixteen vestal virgins who were leaving for the coast and although my eyes were open they might just as well've been closed and so it was that later as the miller told his tale that her face at first just ghostly turned a whiter shade of pale..