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"Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)" is a song composed and performed by English musician Elton John, with lyrics by longtime collaborator Bernie Taupin. It originally appeared on John's 1982 album ''Jump Up!''. The song is a tribute to John Lennon, who had been shot and killed one and a half years earlier. ==Composition and background== Lennon and John were good friends, and in 1974, Lennon appeared on John's single cover of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", the B-side of which was Lennon's "One Day at a Time". The pair later collaborated on "Whatever Gets You thru the Night" which appeared on Lennon's "Walls and Bridges" album. Lennon agreed to appear in concert with John if "Whatever Gets You thru the Night" became a #1 single, which it did. On Thanksgiving Day, 1974, Lennon and John performed these two songs along with "I Saw Her Standing There" at Madison Square Garden.〔Jeff Woolf, Scott Jennings and James L. Halperin (Editor) (Icons of 20th Century Music: Heritage-Odyssey Auction ) ''Heritage Capital Corporation''〕 When Lennon's son Sean was born in 1975, John was made godfather. After Lennon's death, John was concerned that a tribute song to the late Beatle would be "clumsy" – until he saw Taupin's lyrics. The song is titled "Empty Garden", as Lennon's last live performance was at Madison Square Garden (with John in 1974). It has been said that the line "Can't you come out to play?" is a reference to Lennon's song Dear Prudence. John wrote and recorded an earlier instrumental tribute to Lennon, "The Man Who Never Died", which was issued as the B-side of "Nikita" in 1985 and eventually included as a bonus track on the remastered reissue of ''Ice on Fire''. The song is written using the chords of the E major scale. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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