GABRIELLE
Back in ’99, UK singer Gabrielle released a track called Rise, written by herself, Ollie Dagois, and Ferdy Unger-Hamilton, and produced by Jonny Dollar. The magic came from how she blended her smooth vocals with a sample from Bob Dylan’s Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door. And Dylan didn’t just sign off like it was paperwork. He actually liked the track enough to let her use the sample for free, then took a co-writer credit because she used his chords and that soft vocal line floating in the background. When Rise came out as the second single from her album of the same name, it shot straight to No. 1 in the UK for two weeks in January 2000. Ireland followed suit. Then places like Austria, Iceland, Norway, and New Zealand pushed it up their charts too. New Zealand kept it so close that it finished the year as their third best-selling single. It inspired a wave of remixes, spanning house, garage, trance, and downtempo styles, with contributions from major names like Deep Dish, Matt Darey, and Artful Dodger.