Johnny Depp Tours Exhibition of Late 'Beloved Friend' Jeff Beck's Instruments: 'The World's Greatest Guitarist'

Mar. 15, 2025

Johnny Depp via Instagram on Jan. 20, 2024 (credit: Gina Deuters).Photo:Johnny Depp/Instagram

Johnny Depp/Instagram

Johnny Deppis keeping his late friendJeff Beckin mind.

The video, set to a song Depp and Beck released together titled “Midnight Walker” fromtheir 2022 album18,showed Depp examining dozens of guitars and other instruments that belonged to Beck as well as moments the two friends and musicians shared together on stage and in the recording studio in recent years.

“Walking through the history of Jeff’s life. He was the world’s greatest, most influential guitarist who just happened to become my beloved friend,” Depp wrote in a caption to his post, which he signed as, “JD X.” The actor also noted in his caption that the free exhibition is taking place between now and Jan. 22.

Depp, a noted guitarist and musician outside of his massively popular acting career, first met Beck in 2016. The pair released their album18in July 2022, several months before Beck’s death. Theytoured togetherto promote the album as well, with Beck stating in a release at the time of the album’s announcement that he had not “had another creative partner like [Depp] for ages.”

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Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp performing in Helsinki, Finland on June 19, 2022.Venla Shalin/Redferns

Venla Shalin/Redferns

“They had a really tight friendship, they were extremely close, and he got even closer over this past summer when they were touring together,” the source said at the time.

source: people.com