Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)

"Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)"
Single by Elton John
from the album Jump Up!
B-side"Take Me Down to the Ocean"
Released28 May 1982[1] (UK)
RecordedSeptember–October 1981
GenreRock
Length4:06 (single version)
5:05 (album version)
Label
Songwriter(s)Elton John, Bernie Taupin
Producer(s)Chris Thomas
Elton John singles chronology
"Blue Eyes"
(1982)
"Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)"
(1982)
"Princess"
(1982)

"Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)" is a song by English musician Elton John, written by John and Bernie Taupin, which first appeared on his sixteenth album Jump Up! released in 1982. It was the second single of the said album in the UK,[2] and the lead single in the United States.[3] The song is a tribute to John Lennon, who had been murdered 15 months earlier.[4]

  1. ^ "Elton John – Empty Garden".
  2. ^ "Elton John – Empty Garden".
  3. ^ "Elton John – Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)".
  4. ^ "Neither 'Rocket Man' Nor 'Tiny Dancer' Is Elton John's Best Song". Esquire. 29 May 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2023.