In the 1970s there lived in Miramar, a suburb of Miami, a young boy who worried his parents a lot because he was a real snot. It wasn’t until he was given a guitar, when he had just turned twelve, that life beyond burglaries, drugs and street fights began for him. Instead, he formed a band: The Flame, later renamed The Kids. And it brought it to local fame in Florida, for example as the opening act for Iggy Pop or the Talking Heads.
But that wasn’t enough for the boy from Miramar. Johnny Depp wanted to be a rock star and moved to Los Angeles. But he only became an actor. It was the time when a wonderful symbiosis between film and music began to develop in Hollywood. Not with film music, but with music and musicians as the main actors. A trend that has continued to this day and demands tremendous skill from actors playing musicians, just think of “Rocketman”, “Bohemian Rapsodie” or Joaquin Phoenix in “Walk The Line”, who even made Johnny Cash’s slightly crooked mouth from the beginning goes through to the end.
Johnny Depp had appeared on music stages from time to time, and he was even talked about as Jim Morrison for the Oliver Stone film “The Doors”, but Val Kilmer got the role. Depp, Hollywood’s best-paid actor for years, the multiple award-winning (but Oscar-less) film star, was missing the decisive role in life: no, not as Richard Burton’s successor in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf”, which is due to current events would also be obvious, but as a guitar-playing and singing ramp pig. Because things didn’t quite work out in life, he now plays himself in his lifelong dream of rock star (his sidekick is world guitar star Jeff Beck).
It’s as if Mozart would have preferred to be an actor and therefore took on the role of Tom Hulce in “Amadeus”. And if you look at the first videos from London’s legendary Royal Albert Hall, you will see that Johnny Depp is playing the role of his life here. Now he is appearing in this role at the Tollwood in Munich.
THE DAY IN MUNICH
Shed in the forest near Munich is said to have been an illegal tax haven The public prosecutor’s office is investigating several managers of a subsidiary of Hypo-Vereinsbank. They are said to have evaded trade taxes in the millions with a fictitious company headquarters in Ebersberg Forest (SZ Plus). The criminal proceedings show how questionable many communities and companies act in the trade tax.
Discordant sounds around the Munich Konzerthaus are getting louder The New Concert Hall Foundation sharply criticizes Prime Minister Söder’s departure from the prestige project – and brings the Court of Auditors into play. After all, millions have already been spent – for nothing?
Why many communities are dissatisfied with MVG-Rad The state capital and district of Munich have been cooperating for the MVG rental bike system for six years. But in the surrounding area, displeasure with the operator is growing.
Man pushes unsuspecting woman into S-Bahn track The victim is waiting on the platform when she is pushed from behind. Witnesses stop an approaching train just in time. The police are investigating attempted murder.
14-year-old killed in her sleep – teenager admits crime The 18-year-old said in court that he regretted what he did to his girlfriend. The mother had found her daughter dead in bed.
“A Outrageous Deed” A 35-year-old had snuck into the house of a 76-year-old woman, attacked her and raped her with “excessive force”. The district court in Munich has now sentenced him to more than seven years in prison.
New arrivals for the Munich zoo For years, the capybara male lived alone, now he shares the enclosure with two females.
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