Johnny Depp and Marilyn Manson: Friends Forever
The actor takes the stage to accompany his great rock colleague with his guitar
It's hard to think of a more disparate pair of friends, but Marilyn Manson and Johnny Depp don't need to work hard to prove they're thick and thin. And the last proof was delivered on stage at the Revolver Golden Gods awards, which were held on Wednesday night in Los Angeles. The actor, whose fondness for music is widely known, accompanied the rocker with the guitar in two of the four songs that he played during the contest and both showed that the duo they make up not only has a good result in the field of colleagues.
The multifaceted musician shared with Depp the interpretation of The beautiful people and Sweet dreams (are made of this), the iconic songs that made him famous in the mid-nineties, and with this he confirmed that the interpreter of Jack Sparrow more than meets the requirements. to have been invited to record with him a single from his latest album. And is that when choosing the songs for Born Villain, which will be released on May 1 in the United States, Manson thought of his colleague to cover You’re so vain, which in 1972 was immortalized by the American Carly Simon.
"He plays drums and lead guitar, while I play guitar and sing," the rocker explained last month to the MTV music network. "It will be a bonus track of my new album and in the video we will probably appear looking in the mirror and the other one will appear in the reflection," he said on that occasion.
But the friendship of both stars already has a long history. They met in the late eighties, during the recordings of a police series where they coincided. And because each has flirted enough with the other's discipline, they inspire each other to evolve in their careers. In fact, the iconic character of Willy Wonka (the protagonist of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) could be played by Marilyn Manson: in the first conversations of Tim Burton's version, there was talk of offering the singer the role, but finally it was his great friend who got the job. Legend has it that Depp was inspired by his colleague, whom this change suited him phenomenally, to embody the eccentric character.
In his common trajectory, the 2001 film From Hell, starring Depp and in which his rocker friend collaborated with a remix of his emblematic theme The Nobodies, stands out. Later, their friendship became widely public when they attended the premiere of the second part of the Pirates of the Caribbean saga: Dead Man's Chest together, released in 2006.
And in the realm of the heart, both also share a rather complicated status lately. While Johnny Depp remains silent on his alleged separation from Vanessa Paradis, with whom he has two children and a fourteen-year history, Marilyn Manson has been linked to the singer of the moment, Lana del Rey. The rumor mill speaks of romance, but the only thing confirmed is that they have been seen having dinner together and, as the musician has a history of very young couples (his last girlfriend, actress Evan Rachel Wood, was 18 years older), celebrity websites They have not been slow to add two plus two.
