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Fresh off providing the voiceover for the MTV Moonman during last weekend’s Video Music Awards in Newark, N.J., Johnny Depp has lined up his next gig. The actor/musician will join Jeff Beck for 22 dates on the latter’s fall North American tour, beginning Oct. 4 in Washington, D.C. The pair’s collaborative album, 18, was released in July and features covers of The Beach Boys’ “Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder),” Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” The Velvet Underground’s “Venus in Furs,” The Everly Brothers’ “Let It Be Me” and Davy Spillane’s “Midnight Walker.” “When Johnny and I started playing together, it really ignited our youthful spirit and creativity,” Beck said earlier this year. “We would joke about how we felt 18 again, so that just became the album title too. I haven’t had ...

Ahead of the July 15 release of their collaborative album 18, Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp have unveiled their instrumental cover of The Beach Boys’ “Caroline, No” as well as a live music video. Depp has been palling around with Beck in Europe since the conclusion of his defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard earlier this month. [embedded content][embedded content] Beck’s affinity for The Beach Boys stretches back to 1966’s Pet Sounds, which he says “was great support for me in horrible times. I’d left the Yardbirds and regretted it because I had nothing. I was back living with my mum and dad. I thought, right, I’m not going sit around doing nothing. So, I bought a stereo and Pet Sounds, and I was just riveted to the spot. I remember it was a great big cure from losing the Yardbirds, hav...

The day after Johnny Depp‘s high-profile defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard ended, guitarist Jeff Beck revealed the release date for an album he created with the Pirates of the Caribbean actor. “I met this guy five years ago and we’ve never stopped laughing since,” Beck told a UK audience in Gateshead Thursday night. “We actually made an album. I don’t know how it happened. It will be out in July.” While Depp didn’t mention anything about the verdict, which granted him over $10 million in damages. Beck said, “what a result.” [embedded content][embedded content] While jury deliberations were underway in Fairfax, Virginia over the weekend, Depp surprised UK audiences when he joined Beck onstage for covers of Jimi Hendrix’s “Little Wing” and Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Goin’ On.” Alon...