"This Is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr" is a song by English rock guitarist

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and American actor, producer and musician

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released as the lead single from their collaborative studio album ''18'' (2022). The single was released on 9 June 2022 and was written by Depp and American musician

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, who is a member of the supergroup Hollywood Vampires which was co-founded by Depp in 2012. An accompanying music video for "This Is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr", was released on 9 June 2022. The song was performed by Beck and Depp during their 2022 European tour.

Background

Beck and Depp first met in 2016 and quickly got along very well, forming a close friendship. They started recording music together in 2019 and released their first collaborative single, a

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's "Isolation" on 11 April 2020. On 9 June 2022, nine days after the verdict in Depp's highly publicised defamation trial against Amber Heard, the duo released the first official single from the album, the song "This Is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr", which has been described as an ode to Austrian-American actress and inventor

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. The lyrical content appears to be semi-autobiographical, resonating with Depp's own story and image in the years after his divorce from

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References

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