Elton John's 'Empty Garden' is a tribute to who?

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Elton John made the album Jump Up in 1982 and it contains the superb John Lennon tribute song Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny) On 13 September 1980 Elton John performed a free concert to an estimated 400,000 fans on The Great Lawn in Central Park in New York City, with Olsson and Murray back in the Elton John Band, and within hearing distance of his friend John Lennon's apartment building. Three months later Lennon would be murdered in front of that same building. Elton mourned the loss in his 1982 hit "Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)", from his Jump Up! album, his second under a new US recording contract with Geffen Records. He performed the tribute at a sold-out Madison Square Garden show in August 1982, joined on stage by Yoko Ono and Sean Ono Lennon, Elton's godchild. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John#1980s Jan 09 07, 12:00 PM