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"The Pusher" is a rock song written by Hoyt Axton in 1963, made popular by the 1969 movie Easy Rider which used Steppenwolf's version to accompany the opening scenes showing drug trafficking. The lyrics of the song distinguish between a dealer in drugs such as marijuana —who "will sell you lots of sweet dreams"—and a pusher of hard drugs ...
Axton struggled with cocaine addiction, and several of his songs, including "The Pusher", "Snowblind Friend" and "No No Song", partly reflect his experiences with the drug. [2] He was a proponent of medical marijuana use, but he and his wife Deborah were arrested in February 1997 at their Montana home for possession of about 500 g (1.1 lb) of ...
It includes songs written by band members and songs written by others such as the Willie Dixon blues classic "Hoochie Coochie Man", retitled "Hootchie Kootchie Man". [1] The album reached number six on the Billboard 200 album chart. [2] "Born to Be Wild", which was released as a single, peaked at number two on Billboard ' s Hot 100. [3]
The songs on the soundtrack album are sequenced in the same order as they appear in the film, with the following differences: " The Weight ", as originally recorded by The Band for their 1968 debut album Music From Big Pink , was used in the film but could not be licensed for the soundtrack.
Pusher (musician), Canadian musician "The Pusher", a 1968 song by Steppenwolf, written by Hoyt Axton "Pusher", a song by Nickelback from the album Curb, 1996; The Pusher (band), a Swedish pop group; Pusher, a 2018 album by Dani M
Steppenwolf 7 is the fifth studio album by Canadian-American rock band Steppenwolf.The album was released in November 1970, by Dunhill Records.It is the first Steppenwolf album with new bass player George Biondo.
In 1965, he wrote "People Get Ready" for The Impressions, which was ranked No. 24 in Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004. [9] The song received numerous other awards; it was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll", [10] and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998.
Gold: Their Great Hits is a greatest hits album released by the Canadian-American hard rock band Steppenwolf.The album, released in 1971, charted at #24 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts and was certified "gold" by the RIAA on April 12, 1971.