Johnny Depp sings David Bowie tune Heroes in new video from Hollywood Vampires’ upcoming album Rise
The rock supergroup Hollywood Vampires, whose core members embrace – Alice Cooper, Aerosmith’s Joe Perry and Johnny Depp – are set to launch their second studio album, Rise, June 21.
For his or her newest single from the document, Depp takes over the lead vocal duties for a canopy of David Bowie‘s traditional tune Heroes.
The black and white video was filmed in Berlin‘s Hansa Studios final June, the exact same studio that Bowie recorded the unique model approach again in 1977.
Iconic: Johnny Deep takes over as lead vocalist for a canopy of the David Bowie traditional Heroes in a brand new video for the upcoming Hollywood Vampires album Rise
Constructing a way of drama to the opening suggestions riff of the enduring tune, the video begins some behind-the-scene pictures of the band on the brink of document as singer Alice Cooper walks into the stomach of the room.
Depp makes his first look when he belts out the opening traces: ‘I, I want I may swim. Like dolphins, like dolphins can swim.’
Together with his mohawk pulled again with a feather and darkish sun shades, the legendary actor seems each bit the traditional rocker as he belts out the angle and emotion with authority together with his guitar hanging over his shoulders.
The band recorded Heroes at Berlin’s Hansa Studios final June, the exact same studio that Bowie recorded the unique model approach again in 1977.
Gunslinger: The supergroup contains Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry
Legendary: Shock-rocker Alice Cooper does many of the lead vocals for the band
By the point the tune kicks into the refrain: ‘And we will be heroes,’ the video begins to chop to pictures of the band on a tour-bus and reside efficiency footage.
By the second verse the eye is centered on Depp each on stage and within the recording studio.
At one level the band pays homage to Bowie with a fast shot of an image of the rock and roll legend.
The black-and-white video additionally cuts to reside efficiency footage
Frontman: By the second verse the eye facilities on Depp on stage and within the studio
Cool cats: Cooper and Perry lend in with backing vocals
Though the band began out primarily doing cowl songs of their favourite artists from the 1970s for first self-titled album in 2015, Rise branches out with many extra originals.
The earlier two new songs launched from the brand new album embrace The Boogieman Shock final month and Who’s Laughing Now in April.
‘[It’s] not solely a completely totally different animal than the primary Vampires album, it’s distinctive to something I’ve ever been part of,’ Cooper mentioned in an interview with NME.
‘I feel that with this album, we’re establishing what the Vampires’ sound actually is, whereas with the primary album we had been extra tipping our hats to our fallen rock n roll brothers.’
Depp co-founded the band with Perry and Cooper as a method to pay homage to the enduring rock artists who handed away within the 1970s.
All-time nice: At one level the band pays homage to Bowie with a fast shot of an image of the rock and roll legend
Pure transformation: ‘I feel that with this album, we’re establishing what the Vampires’ sound actually is, whereas with the primary album we had been extra tipping our hats to our fallen rock n roll brothers,’ Copper mentioned in an interview with NME
Their historical past: Depp co-founded the band with Perry and Cooper as a method to pay homage to the enduring rock artists who handed away within the 1970s
Coming: The brand new Hollywood Vampire album Rise drops June 21