Did you hear that Johnny Depp is guesting on Marilyn Manson's new album? They've done a cover of Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" which is one of the first two songs (along with Toto's "Rosanna") that I ever understood were actually about screen stars. (I almost typed "actresses" on accident because Warren Beatty is one of the few actors that I respond to in the same heightened way I usually reserve for actresses). For me as a kid that was really exciting to realize, that people wrote songs about stars.. That's probably why one of my favorite Old Hollywood stories as a baby movie buff was how Judy Garland boosted her own nascent fame by reworking the popular song "You Made Me Love You" for Clark Gable at a Hollywood party. It went over so well they put it right into a movie.
Anyway, here's that cover.
You can't really hear Johnny Depp which is just as well I suppose. Sweeney Todd anyone?
It's not the first time the two have worked together of course. Here's a performance of the very best Marilyn Manson song "Beautiful People" with Depp on guitar. Marilyn can't resist that ol' 'guitar's are penises and I love fellating my band bit.'