Johnny Depp will once again be Jeff Beck’s “surprise guest”. The Montreux Jazz Festival announced this Friday morning (10) that the actor will perform together with the British guitarist on July 15, the same day as Van Morrison.
Beck’s concert at the Stravinsky Auditorium had already been announced, but Depp’s participation has only now been announced. The partnership of the two does not come from today and gained greater repercussion when the actor appeared on stage at a concert of the musician’s tour, in Gateshead, in the United Kingdom, on the eve of the end of the trial against Amber Heard, which took place in the US state of Virginia. .
The duo will release on the same day their joint album ’18’, a 13-track disc with two original compositions and rock covers. The first single, ‘This Is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr’, is a tribute to Hedy Lamarr, movie star of the 1940s, and was released this Thursday (9).
This will not be Depp’s first participation at the festival: he performed with the Hollywood Vampires, a supergroup he formed alongside Alice Cooper and Joe Perry, in 2018. This year’s edition starts on July 1st and includes in its line-up. up names like Diana Ross, Stormzy, Björk, Sam Ryder and Nick Cave.
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