Moonlight Shadow (literally translated as "Shadow in Moonlight") is an English pop song written and played by multi-instrumentalist Mike Offield. The song was released in May of 1983 and included in the album Crisis released in the same year [1]. The voice of the song was recorded by the Scottish singer Maggie Riley, who met Mike Orfield at 1980. This is Offield's most successful single, topping many charts in Europe.

It is said that this song 1983 was originally written in memory of the shot Beatles lead singer John Lennon. 1980 65438+On February 8th, mark chapman disguised as a fan and wandered around Lennon's apartment for a long time. That night, when Lennon came home from the recording studio, Chapman asked Lennon to sign his autograph book. At that time, he had a fierce struggle in his heart, but he finally raised his pistol and fired five shots at Lennon's back. Is there moonlight? He was shot six times by an escaped man, and the shadow said the same thing.