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Johnny Depp listens to a query as he testifies within the courtroom throughout his defamation trial in opposition to his ex-wife Amber Heard, on the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on Might 25, 2022. (AFP)
NEW YORK – Recent off his highly publicized, controversial defamation suit, actor Johnny Depp sought to indicate his artistic profession was again on observe Friday, releasing an album with English rocker Jeff Beck.
The 13-track album “18” on which Depp sings and performs guitar options primarily covers, and to this point it has been critically panned.
It’s a file unlikely to determine prominently within the repertoire of Beck, the 78-year-old former member of The Yardbirds.
The album contains renditions of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” and John Lennon’s “Isolation,” in addition to the Velvet Underground basic “Venus In Furs.”
The selection to incorporate a track targeted on sado-masochism might sound weird to some, given the ultra-mediatized trial centered on alleged home abuse between Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard, the actor greatest identified for her position in “Aquaman.”
The album additionally contains two songs the 59-year-old “Pirates of the Caribbean” star penned himself: “It is a Music for Miss Hedy Lamarr,” and “Unhappy Motherfuckin’ Parade.”
“Erased by the identical world that made her a star / Spun out of magnificence, trapped by its net,” Depp sings of Lamarr, who secluded herself within the closing years of her life.
Dangerous Boys, Hollywood Vampires
Depp and Beck met in 2016, bonding “over vehicles and guitars” earlier than the latter stated he started to understand “Depp’s severe songwriting expertise and ear for music.”
They started engaged on this LP in 2019.
It’s removed from Depp’s first foray into music: the actor for greater than a decade has recorded and toured with the Hollywood Vampires, a supergroup he began with Alice Cooper and Joe Perry.
Beck is presently on tour in Europe with Depp as a particular visitor.
This spring Depp gained $15 million within the defamation go well with in opposition to Heard, who was awarded $2 million.
The jury discovered that Heard, 36, defamed Depp in describing herself as a “public determine representing home abuse” in a 2018 op-ed printed in The Washington Submit, though she didn’t establish the actor by title. Depp held he suffered reputational harm following its publication.
Heard acquired $2 million in damages as a result of the jury discovered that certainly one of Depp’s attorneys had defamed her.
The six-week trial gained widespread consideration not least as a result of it was televised and livestreamed, with clips making their option to social media as Heard grew to become a goal of on-line vitriol and mockery.
In its aftermath Depp is embarking on a return to appearing, set to star within the forthcoming French film “La Favourite.”
He’ll play King Louis XV, with filming places together with Versailles.
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