Johnny Depp has launched a brand new self-penned track carried out with Jeff Beck, This Is a Music for Miss Hedy Lamarr, taken from the pair’s forthcoming collaborative album, entitled 18.
A trudging rock ballad sung by Depp interspersed with guitar soloing from Beck, it hymns the Forties movie star (and revolutionary electrical engineer) Hedy Lamarr, although this lament about fame will inevitably be learn as a response to the high-profile, ceaselessly ugly defamation case he not too long ago introduced towards his ex-wife Amber Heard.
“I don’t imagine, I can’t imagine, I gained’t imagine people any extra,” Depp sings within the refrain, with one other lyric complaining: “It’s so onerous to speak when nobody will hear, and everybody stares as you quiver in concern.”
The opening verse, ostensibly about Lamarr, is a portrait of the difficulties of movie stardom: “Erased by the identical world who made her a star,” it begins, Depp including: “The sunshine of her being, her unique attract / was torn on the seams for daring to dream / it’s so onerous to talk if you’re frozen in scream … Seems like a dream, nevertheless it’s life and it’s dying.”
He sings on the climatic verse: “Stripped of perception, a thief is a thief / who’s going to face as much as provide you with aid / of all dispossessed, it’s so onerous to digest / you’ve no proper to take a seat down in the event you’re no one’s visitor.”
The track is the second observe Depp and Beck have launched. The primary was a canopy of John Lennon’s Isolation, launched within the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic for its lyrical resonances with the lockdowns occurring around the globe.
The remainder of the album’s tracklist has been introduced, with loads of different cowl variations, together with Caroline No and Don’t Speak (Put Your Head on My Shoulder) by the Seaside Boys, plus Time by their late drummer Dennis Wilson; Venus in Furs by the Velvet Underground; tracks by artists as diverse as Janis Ian, Killing Joke and the Everly Brothers; and, in what shall be seen as a slightly hubristic alternative, Marvin Gaye’s lament for social injustice, What’s Going On.
There's additionally one other track written by Depp, entitled Unhappy Motherfuckin’ Parade.
Beck heralded Depp in an accompanying assertion, saying: “I haven’t had one other artistic accomplice like him for ages. He was a serious pressure on this file. I simply hope individuals will take him significantly as a musician as a result of it’s a tough factor for some individuals to just accept that Johnny Depp can sing rock’n’roll.”
Depp has been touring with Beck throughout the UK in current weeks, the place he heard the results of his trial towards Heard. A jury present in favour of Depp, deciding that he had been defamed by a Washington Publish article that Heard wrote, describing herself as “a public determine representing home abuse” with out naming Depp.
Heard mentioned the jury resolution “units again the concept that violence towards ladies is to be taken significantly”. She has not but introduced whether or not she's going to attraction towards the decision.
18 is launched on 15 July, with a vinyl model on 30 September.
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