Sonic’s classic Green Hill Zone theme is now a song with lyrics

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Sonic The Hedgehog now has its own official song and lyrics, thanks to its original composer.While Masato Nakamura is known to Sonic fans as the composer of Sonic the Hedgehog and its sequel, he’s best known by Japanese music fans as the bass player and co-founding member of J-Pop band Dreams Come True, who have been around since 1988, having sold 50million records worldwide.To celebrate Sonic’s 30th anniversary, Dreams Come True has released a new song called ‘Tsugino Seno!

De – On The Green Hill’, which not only transforms the iconic theme from the original game’s first zone into a four-minute song, but also gives it lyrics, with vocals sung by Miwa Yoshida.The video makes a number of visual nods to the blue hedgehog, including a boy.