A week after the end of his highly publicized defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard, Johnny Depp has announced that he will release an album on July 15 with British rocker Jeff Beck.
The 13-track disc, titled 18is largely made up of covers – from Beach Boys, Marvin Gaye or The Velvet Underground – according to a press release sent by Depp and Beck.
The album also features their first duet single, “Isolation”, a reinterpretation of a song by John Lennon.
It also includes two songs written by Johnny Depp: “This Is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr” and “Sad Motherfuckin ‘Parade”.
The duo met in 2016, making friends with each other cars and guitars.
Like teenagers
When Johnny and I started playing, it really ignited our youthful spirit and creativity.said Jeff Beck. We joked like we were 18 times, so that was also the title of the album.
This isn’t Johnny Depp’s first foray into music: the actor has recorded and toured for more than a decade with the Hollywood Vampires, a supergroup he started with Alice Cooper and guitarist Joe Perry. ‘Aerosmith.
It is a wonderful honor to play and write music with Jeff, one of the greatest, who I have the privilege to call my brother.said Johnny Depp, current special guest of Jeff Beck’s tour of Europe.
Guilty of slander
A jury last week awarded Mr Depp C $ 13.2 million in damages following a defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard.
A Fairfax, Va. Court jury found that the 36-year-old actress had defamed Mr. Depp by presenting himself as a victim of domestic abuse in a 2018 op-ed published in Washington Postalthough he did not specify the actor’s name.
For her part, Ms. Heard was supposed to receive 2.5 million Canadian dollars in damages, because the jury found that he was also defamed by one of Mr.’s lawyers. Depp.
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Source: Radio-Canada
