Johnny Depp to Tour With the Hollywood Vampires Next Summer
Johnny Depp is headed to Europe for an overseas tour with his band Hollywood Vampires, which includes rock luminaries these types of as Joe Perry, Alice Cooper and Tommy Henriksen.
The supergroup had earlier canceled a tour again in March simply because of pandemic-linked obstructions. “We stored attempting to make it come about, but regretably due to the uncertainty of COVID-19 journey restrictions, it is just not doable,” they wrote in a statement at the time.
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Now, the group designs to reunite with lovers in Germany and Luxembourg for a scheduled six demonstrates. It will be rather a bit of a wait around, nonetheless, as their initially gig isn’t right until next June at the Rudolf Weber Arena in Oberhausen, Germany. Their past exhibit will be on June 30 at Zitadelle in Mainz, Germany.
Depp has been accomplishing together with Jeff Beck as a visitor on his live exhibits — which produced headlines when the actor traveled to Europe to begin carrying out with the famous guitarist just prior to his trial verdict in a lawsuit in opposition to ex-spouse Amber Read. Depp has considering that joined Beck yet again for a run of reveals in Europe right until the tour wraps up on July 25 in Paris.
Beck and Depp have also collaborated on a new album, “18.” They are releasing the joint undertaking on July 15 with the set’s initial single, “This Is A Song For Skip Hedy Lamarr,” possessing currently been launched. The tune, composed by Depp, pays homage to American movie actress Lamarr (who died in 2000 at age 85). It is 1 of two music prepared by Depp for the project, the other 1 remaining “Sad Motherfuckin’ Parade.”
The unique Depp-penned tracks are the outliers of “18,” an album in any other case designed up of deal with music, some of them sung by Depp, some in totally instrumental variety. In a assertion, Beck reported that he was “blown away” with Depp when he initial shared the “Hedy Lamarr” tune, 3 decades ago. “That song is a person of the good reasons I requested him to make an album with me,” stated Beck.
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