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New single This Is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr is a ballad about the difficulties of film stardom, taken from Depp’s forthcoming album with Jeff Beck

Johnny Depp has released a new self-penned song performed with Jeff Beck, This Is a Song 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 1940s film star (and innovative electrical engineer) Hedy Lamarr, though this lament about fame will inevitably be read as a reaction to the high-profile, frequently ugly defamation case he recently brought against his ex-wife Amber Heard.

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​“I don’t believe, I can’t believe, I won’t believe humans any more, ” Depp sings in the chorus, with another lyric complaining: “It’s so hard to talk when no one will hear, and everyone stares as you quiver in fear.”

The opening verse, ostensibly about Lamarr, is a portrait of the difficulties of film stardom: “Erased by the same world who made her a star, ” it begins, Depp adding: “The light of her being, her exotic allure / was torn at the seams for daring to dream / it’s so hard to speak when you’re frozen in scream … Feels like a dream, but it’s life and it’s death.”

He sings on the climatic verse: “Stripped of belief, a thief is a thief / who’s going to stand up to give you relief / of all dispossessed, it’s so hard to digest / you’ve no right to sit down if you’re nobody’s guest.”

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The song is the second track Depp and Beck have released. The first was a cover of John Lennon’s Isolation, released in the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic for its lyrical resonances with the lockdowns happening around the world.

The rest of the album’s tracklist has been announced, with plenty of other cover versions, including Caroline No and Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder) by the Beach Boys, plus Time by their late drummer Dennis Wilson; Venus in Furs by the Velvet Underground; tracks by artists as varied as Janis Ian, Killing Joke and the Everly Brothers; and, in what will be seen as a rather hubristic choice, Marvin Gaye’s lament for social injustice, What’s Going On.

Beck heralded Depp in an accompanying statement, saying: “I haven’t had another creative partner like him for ages. He was a major force on this record. I just hope people will take him seriously as a musician because it’s a hard thing for some people to accept that Johnny Depp can sing rock’n’roll.”

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Depp has been touring with Beck across the UK in recent weeks, where he heard the result of his trial against Heard. A jury found in favour of Depp, deciding that he had been defamed by a Washington Post article that Heard wrote, describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse” without naming Depp.

Heard said the jury decision “sets back the idea that violence against women is to be taken seriously”. She has not yet announced whether she will appeal against the verdict.Johnny Depp’s decades-long career has spanned every kind of character imaginable, from the most savory to the most unsavory, and everything in between. Depp’s sheer breadth and versatility as an actor are the sure sign of an instatiably curious mind, a restless drive to forever push beyond one’s comfort zones, and an unrivaled talent for probing the depths of human imagination and experience.

Johnny Depp is beyond a doubt one of the world’s most celebrated film stars, loved and admired by critics and fans the world over for his often-outlandish and flamboyant portrayals of outcasts and marginals, both real and invented.

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It’s fair to say that there’s no one quite like Johnny Depp. What lies behind the penchant for freaks and eccentrics? Have a look below, at our Top 18 Johnny Depp Quotes That Will Change How You Look at Life.

Top 18 Johnny Depp Quotes That Will Change How You Look at Life There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it. If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgement on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color. People cry not because they’re weak, it’s because they’ve been strong for too long.

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As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too. I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it’s going to work or whether I’m going to fall flat on my face. If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first, you wouldn’t have fallen for the second. Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

Just keep moving forward, and don’t give a shit about what anyone thinks. Do what you have to do, for you. I’ve never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that’s for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it’s a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I’m driven by that. Everything I’ve done has felt very natural, and it’s happened because it’s happened.

Love is not blind. It simply enables one to see things others fail to see. We’re all damaged in our own way. Nobody’s perfect. I think we’re all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us. You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.

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I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labelled. There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young. There’s a drive in me that won’t allow me to do certain things that are easy. One day the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.

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