Title: Johnny on Rolling Stone cover
Description: More scans/pics added, p3
Description: More scans/pics added, p3
Karen - January 9, 2008 02:55 PM (GMT)
Be sure to add this issue to your collection!!
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/179...hnny_depp_sings
Johnny Depp Sings
After belting for the first time in "Sweeney Todd," Depp rocks out on his life in music
GAVIN EDWARDSPosted Jan 09, 2008 5:46 AM
Attend the tale of Johnny Depp: still Hollywood's most perverse superstar, he has followed up the family-friendly Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy with Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a buckets-of-blood saga of cannibalism that is also — gulp! — a musical. That's right, Depp sings for the first time ever onscreen, and critics are warbling his praises for tackling the notoriously difficult score from theater legend Stephen Sondheim. This gripping adaptation of the 1979 Broadway hit is the sixth movie Depp has done with director Tim Burton, for whom he's played misfits from Edward Scissorhands to Ed Wood. But a full-out musical is a first for both of them. And the pain-wracked intensity Depp brings to this London barber obsessed with revenge is sparking Oscar talk.
Today Depp meets me in a suite at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood. His jeans are ripped, and his black shirt is open at the neck to reveal a GONZO necklace, a tribute to his late friend, Hunter S. Thompson. Depp looks around the tastefully appointed room. "They've really done this place up," he says. "I lived in the Chateau for a while, years ago, and it was dingy but great. It was like they bought the couches from the Ramada Inn that was closed down by the Health Department in 1970." Depp has come a long way from his childhood in Kentucky, the youngest of four children. His parents — a waitress and a city engineer — moved more than twenty times while he was young, settling in Miramar, Florida, when he was seven, and divorcing when he was fifteen. These days, Depp, 44, and his family (French singer-actress Vanessa Paradis and their two children, Lily-Rose, 8, and Jack, 5) split their time between Los Angeles and the South of France.
Conversation with the quick-witted Depp can careen from whether new popes get their genitals cupped to ensure the leader of the Catholic Church is sufficiently male ("I think an elderly man waddles up to you and reaches under your dress") to his out-of-control life before he met Paradis ("I'm a dumb-ass, and I poisoned myself for years. Now I understand things better").
It's been seventeen years since Depp starred in Cry-Baby, the Fifties musical pastiche from John Waters, where his singing voice was dubbed. Since Depp performs his own songs in Sweeney Todd, it seemed like the right time to revisit his musical career and how it improbably led him to become one of the most compelling actors of his generation.
Was your family musical at all?
My mom and my dad weren't particularly musical, no. But I did have an uncle who was a preacher, and he played hillbilly bluegrass guitar. So Sunday church services, it was like, "Hallelujah, brothers and sisters," and then he would start picking "Stepping on the Clouds." That was where I got the bug: watching my uncle play the guitar with his little gospel group, right in front of me.
What was the first record you bought?
I don't know if I bought it, but the first record I remember listening to nonstop, oddly, was Dean Martin, Everybody Loves Somebody. And then Boots Randolph. And then the record album of Blackbeard's Ghost, with Peter Ustinov. I'd never seen the film — I didn't see it until I was in my late thirties. But I knew it verbatim. Slightly ironic. And then I turned that corner into preteen and I remember listening to Frampton Comes Alive! too much. My brother's ten years older than me. He grabbed the needle off the album and there was this horrific noise — wrrrraarrrar. He said, "Listen, man, you're killing me. Try this." And he put on Van Morrison's Astral Weeks. And it stirred me. I'd never heard anything like it. I said, "OK, maybe Frampton Comes Alive! is a little tired." Then my brother, very pleased with himself, started turning me on to other things, like the soundtrack to Last Tango in Paris.
Did you wonder why they didn't show the [X-rated] "Tango" on TV?
I was a little kid and it sounded good enough to me. I remember liking the image on the record album, of Brando and Maria Schneider, although I didn't quite understand it. It's a good bit to chew on when you're a kid. Now, thirty-some years later, it's still a pretty good bit to chew on. It's good stuff.
How did listening to music become making music?
When I was twelve, I talked my mom into picking up a Decca electric guitar for me for twenty-five dollars. It had a little blue plush amp. And then, this is horrible, the first thing I did was steal a Mel Bay chord book. I went to this store, stuffed it down my pants and walked out. It had pictures — that's why I needed it so badly, because it was immediate gratification. If I could match those photographs, then I was golden. I conquered it in days. I locked the bedroom door, didn't leave, and taught myself how to play chords. I started learning songs by ear.
What was the first song you could play through?
Every kid with a guitar at that time, the first things that came up were almost always "Smoke on the Water," obviously, and "25 or 6 to 4," by Chicago. But the first song I played all the way through must have been "Stairway to Heaven." I remember getting through the fingerpicking and just cursing Jimmy Page.
What was your first band? When I was about thirteen, I got together with some other kids in the neighborhood. This one guy had a bass, we knew a guy who had a PA system, we made our own lights. It was really ramshackle and great. We'd play at people's backyard parties. Everything from the Beatles to Led Zeppelin to Cheap Trick to Devo — and "Johnny B. Goode" was the closer.
You've got that wistful look in your eyes.
You're thirteen years old and you're playing rock & roll. Loud. Poorly. But somebody's letting you do it in their back yard. And it was absolute perfection. It was freedom. Right off the bat, there was no question: I had found my future.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/179...hnny_depp_sings
Johnny Depp Sings
After belting for the first time in "Sweeney Todd," Depp rocks out on his life in music
GAVIN EDWARDSPosted Jan 09, 2008 5:46 AM
Attend the tale of Johnny Depp: still Hollywood's most perverse superstar, he has followed up the family-friendly Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy with Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a buckets-of-blood saga of cannibalism that is also — gulp! — a musical. That's right, Depp sings for the first time ever onscreen, and critics are warbling his praises for tackling the notoriously difficult score from theater legend Stephen Sondheim. This gripping adaptation of the 1979 Broadway hit is the sixth movie Depp has done with director Tim Burton, for whom he's played misfits from Edward Scissorhands to Ed Wood. But a full-out musical is a first for both of them. And the pain-wracked intensity Depp brings to this London barber obsessed with revenge is sparking Oscar talk.
Today Depp meets me in a suite at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood. His jeans are ripped, and his black shirt is open at the neck to reveal a GONZO necklace, a tribute to his late friend, Hunter S. Thompson. Depp looks around the tastefully appointed room. "They've really done this place up," he says. "I lived in the Chateau for a while, years ago, and it was dingy but great. It was like they bought the couches from the Ramada Inn that was closed down by the Health Department in 1970." Depp has come a long way from his childhood in Kentucky, the youngest of four children. His parents — a waitress and a city engineer — moved more than twenty times while he was young, settling in Miramar, Florida, when he was seven, and divorcing when he was fifteen. These days, Depp, 44, and his family (French singer-actress Vanessa Paradis and their two children, Lily-Rose, 8, and Jack, 5) split their time between Los Angeles and the South of France.
Conversation with the quick-witted Depp can careen from whether new popes get their genitals cupped to ensure the leader of the Catholic Church is sufficiently male ("I think an elderly man waddles up to you and reaches under your dress") to his out-of-control life before he met Paradis ("I'm a dumb-ass, and I poisoned myself for years. Now I understand things better").
It's been seventeen years since Depp starred in Cry-Baby, the Fifties musical pastiche from John Waters, where his singing voice was dubbed. Since Depp performs his own songs in Sweeney Todd, it seemed like the right time to revisit his musical career and how it improbably led him to become one of the most compelling actors of his generation.
Was your family musical at all?
My mom and my dad weren't particularly musical, no. But I did have an uncle who was a preacher, and he played hillbilly bluegrass guitar. So Sunday church services, it was like, "Hallelujah, brothers and sisters," and then he would start picking "Stepping on the Clouds." That was where I got the bug: watching my uncle play the guitar with his little gospel group, right in front of me.
What was the first record you bought?
I don't know if I bought it, but the first record I remember listening to nonstop, oddly, was Dean Martin, Everybody Loves Somebody. And then Boots Randolph. And then the record album of Blackbeard's Ghost, with Peter Ustinov. I'd never seen the film — I didn't see it until I was in my late thirties. But I knew it verbatim. Slightly ironic. And then I turned that corner into preteen and I remember listening to Frampton Comes Alive! too much. My brother's ten years older than me. He grabbed the needle off the album and there was this horrific noise — wrrrraarrrar. He said, "Listen, man, you're killing me. Try this." And he put on Van Morrison's Astral Weeks. And it stirred me. I'd never heard anything like it. I said, "OK, maybe Frampton Comes Alive! is a little tired." Then my brother, very pleased with himself, started turning me on to other things, like the soundtrack to Last Tango in Paris.
Did you wonder why they didn't show the [X-rated] "Tango" on TV?
I was a little kid and it sounded good enough to me. I remember liking the image on the record album, of Brando and Maria Schneider, although I didn't quite understand it. It's a good bit to chew on when you're a kid. Now, thirty-some years later, it's still a pretty good bit to chew on. It's good stuff.
How did listening to music become making music?
When I was twelve, I talked my mom into picking up a Decca electric guitar for me for twenty-five dollars. It had a little blue plush amp. And then, this is horrible, the first thing I did was steal a Mel Bay chord book. I went to this store, stuffed it down my pants and walked out. It had pictures — that's why I needed it so badly, because it was immediate gratification. If I could match those photographs, then I was golden. I conquered it in days. I locked the bedroom door, didn't leave, and taught myself how to play chords. I started learning songs by ear.
What was the first song you could play through?
Every kid with a guitar at that time, the first things that came up were almost always "Smoke on the Water," obviously, and "25 or 6 to 4," by Chicago. But the first song I played all the way through must have been "Stairway to Heaven." I remember getting through the fingerpicking and just cursing Jimmy Page.
What was your first band? When I was about thirteen, I got together with some other kids in the neighborhood. This one guy had a bass, we knew a guy who had a PA system, we made our own lights. It was really ramshackle and great. We'd play at people's backyard parties. Everything from the Beatles to Led Zeppelin to Cheap Trick to Devo — and "Johnny B. Goode" was the closer.
You've got that wistful look in your eyes.
You're thirteen years old and you're playing rock & roll. Loud. Poorly. But somebody's letting you do it in their back yard. And it was absolute perfection. It was freedom. Right off the bat, there was no question: I had found my future.
wwjdd - January 9, 2008 03:20 PM (GMT)
Oh Sweet Mother of Pearl!!!!! :thud :thud :thud
*calling up from the gutter* Anyone know when this issure hits the stands?
*Edited to say that if I were capable of reproduction I would name my first born child after anyone that can remove the typeface from that cover shot*
*calling up from the gutter* Anyone know when this issure hits the stands?
*Edited to say that if I were capable of reproduction I would name my first born child after anyone that can remove the typeface from that cover shot*
herestoyou - January 9, 2008 03:40 PM (GMT)
:thud Whoa---bet that one will disappear fast-----what a stunning photo, and that's not even the correct word.........had to laugh at the pulled up neck shot---------once I got past those eyes! :P Does this come out Friday?
-Donna
-Donna
Depputante - January 9, 2008 03:43 PM (GMT)
Oh S.... :thud
In the mad dash to 'flick channels' ..... JDR's Stones Cover wins !
All other channels become unviewable, no coverage.
The remote battery dies....
My household ...is in the gutter.
No emoticons will ever suffice to what I just went though.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I might have to change my avitar....
In the mad dash to 'flick channels' ..... JDR's Stones Cover wins !
All other channels become unviewable, no coverage.
The remote battery dies....
My household ...is in the gutter.
No emoticons will ever suffice to what I just went though.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I might have to change my avitar....
Leener - January 9, 2008 03:46 PM (GMT)
MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS! GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY!
Ellen - January 9, 2008 03:58 PM (GMT)
What a tease he is. Is this out now or do we have to wait?
BuccaRoux - January 9, 2008 04:04 PM (GMT)
OMG there are no words. :upinsmoke
oprahnoodlemantra - January 9, 2008 04:59 PM (GMT)
The cover picture is geourgous, ;) not to sure about the high neck jumper though, i don't think even johnny can pull that one off. :lol: Does anyone know when the mag is out in the U.K?
Depp-Nightwish-Fan - January 9, 2008 05:16 PM (GMT)
Wow! :thud I like the cover page too but that other...... =0 OMG!!!
Depputante - January 9, 2008 05:46 PM (GMT)
If you click on the bottom of that link, you get this beautiful compillation:
http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery..._roll_life_th/1
http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery..._roll_life_th/1
aristeamj - January 9, 2008 06:03 PM (GMT)
Holy %^&*$
OPEN SHIRT!!! TURTLENECK!!!
:upinsmoke
:thud :thud
OPEN SHIRT!!! TURTLENECK!!!
:upinsmoke
:thud :thud
Sparrowette - January 9, 2008 07:07 PM (GMT)
:thud :upinsmoke
I cannot breath! That chest! Those grogeous eyes! :bow
When is this out???? I missed the Esquire one too.
Yvonne in LA
I cannot breath! That chest! Those grogeous eyes! :bow
When is this out???? I missed the Esquire one too.
Yvonne in LA
Karen - January 9, 2008 07:25 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Sparrowette @ Jan 9 2008, 01:07 PM) |
| :thud :upinsmoke I cannot breath! That chest! Those grogeous eyes! :bow When is this out???? I missed the Esquire one too. Yvonne in LA |
I don't know the release date, try calling your local book seller or magazine stand.
Rose Sparrow - January 9, 2008 08:16 PM (GMT)
MERCY!!!!! :upinsmoke :upinsmoke
cabungirl - January 9, 2008 10:39 PM (GMT)
Can't take my eyes off of the page. :thud
deppfan4ever - January 9, 2008 10:43 PM (GMT)
:banghead :upinsmoke and finally......... :thud . Talk about somthing knocking me off of the couch. That EVERYTHING!!!!!
Nicci :angel
Nicci :angel
deppfan4ever - January 9, 2008 10:48 PM (GMT)
It must be out this week because they said on the site that this is the current issue. Onward to the grocery store to attack the magazine rack.
Nicci :angel
Nicci :angel
amp - January 9, 2008 11:03 PM (GMT)
Hot -diggidy, dog-diggidy, mmmmm, what he does to me.
Can't wait to get it!
Can't wait to get it!
depplyinluv - January 9, 2008 11:21 PM (GMT)
You guys crack me up!!! Truly some gorgeous pics though. Will be stopping at Borders every day till I get one of these. I'm going to wait until I get my copy to read the article. Something really fun to look forward to in an otherwise dreary January (except for a couple more trips to the theater for ST of course). :D
Debbie
Debbie
ivycastle - January 9, 2008 11:26 PM (GMT)
:upinsmoke He's killing me!!!!!!
Joanie
Joanie
Depputante - January 9, 2008 11:27 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (ivycastle @ Jan 9 2008, 03:26 PM) |
| :upinsmoke He's killing me!!!!!! Joanie |
Bet ya Can't make that picture much better! :P LOL.... go for it!
I DARE you! (twiddles thumbs in anticipation....)
I bet Joanie stops cold and gets stuck with the editing!!!! :lol:
Karen - January 9, 2008 11:28 PM (GMT)
I stopped at my neighborhood Borders and they didn't have it yet. wah
JohnnyDeppLover - January 9, 2008 11:39 PM (GMT)
OMG OMG OMG! I absolutely can't breath, can Johnny get any more hotter then he already is! :thud :thud :thud :upinsmoke :upinsmoke :upinsmoke
I can't wait to get my hands on this one! :claphands
Thanks :jdr
I can't wait to get my hands on this one! :claphands
Thanks :jdr
MerryK - January 9, 2008 11:54 PM (GMT)
Someone sent me those pics at work today and lets just say.. I was totally useless afterwards!!!! :thud
There are just no words!!!! Well maybe more like a 1000 words and adjectives to describe him in those pics!!!
Although I was thinking.. that look on his face in the open shirt pic that he's thinking.. does my shirt really have to be so open... lol ... ummm.. I dont mind.. :shistle
The new issue of RS, if I recall correctly ususally shows up on Saturday in the bookstores.. I've never caught it on a Friday although I always still look for it then
~ sighing Mary Kay
There are just no words!!!! Well maybe more like a 1000 words and adjectives to describe him in those pics!!!
Although I was thinking.. that look on his face in the open shirt pic that he's thinking.. does my shirt really have to be so open... lol ... ummm.. I dont mind.. :shistle
The new issue of RS, if I recall correctly ususally shows up on Saturday in the bookstores.. I've never caught it on a Friday although I always still look for it then
~ sighing Mary Kay
deppaholic - January 10, 2008 12:04 AM (GMT)
[QUOTE=Karen,Jan 9 2008, 08:55 AM]
FINISHED!
Rose
FINISHED!
Rose
herestoyou - January 10, 2008 01:15 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE |
| Although I was thinking.. that look on his face in the open shirt pic that he's thinking.. does my shirt really have to be so open... lol ... ummm.. I dont mind.. |
MKay--I took that look as "I know exactly what this pic will do to everyone......" :thud
-Donna
deppaholic - January 10, 2008 01:20 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (herestoyou @ Jan 9 2008, 07:15 PM) |
| MKay--I took that look as "I know exactly what this pic will do to everyone......" :thud -Donna |
Then he has no mercy! :thud
Rose
captainjacksparrow - January 10, 2008 01:22 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (deppaholic @ Jan 9 2008, 08:20 PM) | ||
Then he has no mercy! :thud Rose |
I agree...he knows what he is doing to us :thud :thud :thud :thud
Depputante - January 10, 2008 01:26 AM (GMT)
I imagine he's thinking, "Like this?" :huh:
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.
.
YES.... I "like this!" :P
Too late now Johnny ! :D
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YES.... I "like this!" :P
Too late now Johnny ! :D
deppfan4ever - January 10, 2008 01:48 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (captainjacksparrow @ Jan 9 2008, 07:22 PM) | ||||
I agree...he knows what he is doing to us :thud :thud :thud :thud |
Johnny knows exactly how we will react to that. :banghead :upinsmoke :thud .
I'm done for the evening!! Between this and the Japanese pics. :thud
Nicci :angel
depplyinluv - January 10, 2008 02:00 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (captainjacksparrow @ Jan 9 2008, 08:22 PM) | ||||
I agree...he knows what he is doing to us :thud :thud :thud :thud |
And we are all thanking him for it! :thanks
Debbie
Hibblette - January 10, 2008 02:01 AM (GMT)
:thud :ciggy
herestoyou - January 10, 2008 03:20 AM (GMT)
I think we need this larger--- :thud
This may be a little larger:
http://www.imnotobsessed.com/2008/01/09/jo...japan-premiere/
-Donna
This may be a little larger:
http://www.imnotobsessed.com/2008/01/09/jo...japan-premiere/
-Donna
Parlez - January 10, 2008 03:26 AM (GMT)
Help! I've lost me brain! :upinsmoke
Karen - January 10, 2008 03:28 AM (GMT)
That'll about do it. :thud
Depputante - January 10, 2008 03:45 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Parlez @ Jan 9 2008, 07:26 PM) |
| Help! I've lost me brain! :upinsmoke |
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Karen - January 10, 2008 03:47 AM (GMT)
A friend scanned these pics for us from the article! There are other pics, inlcuding the Epiphany scene with Depp on his knees and a pic of Johnny and the family..but I won't post that one.
If you share these, please credit johnnydeppreads. thanks
Enjoy these:
From the inside page:
If you share these, please credit johnnydeppreads. thanks
Enjoy these:
From the inside page:
SavvyPeppers - January 10, 2008 03:49 AM (GMT)
YOWZA. That's all I can say. :thud
Swag - January 10, 2008 03:54 AM (GMT)
Thanks for giving us the heads up!! I got my copy today! I am at a loss for words! He kills me!!!
:thud :thud :thud
:thud :thud :thud
Sparrowette - January 10, 2008 03:54 AM (GMT)
That's done it for me! Where is the rum????
:thud :upinsmoke
Yvonne in LA
:thud :upinsmoke
Yvonne in LA