After authorized battle with Amber Heard, Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck announce new joint album, ’18’

Fresh off his authorized battle together with his ex-wife, Johnny Depp has introduced that he and legendary guitarist Jeff Beck will launch an album of largely covers subsequent month.

The duo’s 13-track album is titled “18” and can drop on July 15. They mentioned they titled the album after the inventive outburst they felt working collectively. “We would joke about how we felt 18 again, so that just became the album title, too,” Beck mentioned in an announcement.

The album incorporates covers of The Velvet Underground’s “Venus In Furs,” the Everly Brothers’ ballad “Let It Be Me” and Marvin Gaye’s soul traditional “What’s Going On.” There are also variations of Davy Spillane’s “Midnight Walker” and two songs from the Beach Boys’ masterpiece, “Pet Sounds” — “Caroline, No” and “Don’t Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder).”

Depp equipped two originals, together with “This Is A Song For Miss Hedy Lamarr,” the set’s first single. The cowl of the album — a sketch of two younger males in white T-shirts — was designed by Beck’s spouse, Sandra.

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Depp, lengthy a member of the rock group Hollywood Vampires with Alice Cooper and Joe Perry, began recording with Beck in 2019, and Depp has joined Beck’s present European tour.

Earlier this month, a jury sided with Depp in his defamation lawsuit in opposition to ex-wife Amber Heard, awarding the Pirates of the Caribbean actor greater than $10 million and vindicating his allegations that Heard defamed him by accusing him of abusing her earlier than and through their temporary marriage.

But in a break up determination, the jury additionally discovered that Heard was defamed by one in every of Depp’s attorneys, who accused her of making an in depth hoax that included roughing up the couple’s house to look worse for police. The jury awarded her $2 million.