Johnny Depp is singing his excellent news.
Depp, who turned 59 Thursday, and Jeff Beck, 77, introduced the upcoming launch of a brand new album.
The 13-track file, titled “18,” incorporates covers of bands from the Seaside Boys to the Velvet Underground, together with two tracks composed by Depp himself. It will likely be obtainable July 15.
Depp and Beck launched a music video for one in every of their singles, titled “This Is a Track for Miss Hedy Lamarr,” on Thursday together with the announcement.
The tune is one in every of Depp’s unique compositions and is attributed because the catalyst for this collaborative album. The title references the late Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr, who sued Warner Bros. studio for $10 million in 1974 when Mel Brooks named a personality Hedley Lamarr in his comedy “Blazing Saddles.” The case was ultimately settled out of court docket in her favor for an undisclosed sum.
“It’s a unprecedented honor to play and write music with Jeff, one of many true greats and somebody I'm now privileged sufficient to name my brother,” Depp mentioned in a launch.
Depp and Beck met in 2016 and determined to work collectively on an album in 2019. The 2 have been placing “18” collectively for 3 years and are at present on tour within the UK.
The actor even missed the court docket verdict in his extremely publicized trial along with his ex-wife Amber Heard, as he was flying throughout the pond to hitch Beck onstage.
Beck teased the album whereas performing with Depp days earlier than the announcement was formally launched.
“I met this man 5 years in the past and we’ve by no means stopped laughing since,” Beck advised the gang, in accordance with the BBC. “We really made an album. I don’t know the way it occurred. It will likely be out in July.”
The 2 will proceed touring till July 25, after they’ll play Paris.
Information of Depp’s newest challenge comes on the actor’s birthday, June 9, and every week after the actor received his defamation go well with towards Heard.
Depp sued his ex-wife for libel in Virginia after she wrote an op-ed within the Washington Publish in 2018, during which she referred to herself as a “public determine representing home abuse.”
The panel of jurors finally sided with Depp, agreeing along with his declare that Heard, 36, sullied his fame and broken his profession together with her op-ed.
Heard plans to attraction the decision, a supply accustomed to her authorized technique advised The Publish. However Depp seems to be transferring on with a rising record of upcoming initiatives.
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