But so what? I’d just finished writing a 900-page book on Theodore Roosevelt and needed a spring break. With Wall Street plummeting and Detroit sliding toward the abyss, a seafaring adventure in the Atlantic feels somewhat sinful. I’ve joined my suave-hillbilly friend for a week in the tropics to escape the bad noise of March. It’s a place where the off-kilter meets off-road serenity, where pure spontaneity meets fastidiously manicured fantasy. “I played this one from a boom box when Lily Rose was born,” Depp says, referring to the day a decade ago when his partner, Vanessa Paradis, the French-born singer and actress, brought their daughter into the world. Richards, alone on piano, is now singing a haunting rendition of Hoagy Carmichael’s “The Nearness of You.” “Listen to this,” he urges, nodding in adoration.
(Richards eventually had his sentence reduced from trafficking to possession and was put on probation for a year.)ĭepp tilts his head toward the hut. He thought he was headed to jail for 30 fucking years for trafficking.”ĭepp, as if recounting a favorite outlaw fable, then goes on to tell how the Ontario Provincial Police and a team of Royal Canadian Mounties stormed into Keith Richards’s room while he was sleeping and confiscated 22 grams of heroin. “He recorded some of these after his ’77 heroin bust in Toronto. Then check out our retrospective of Depp’s appearances in Vanity Fair’s pages, and read “ The Maverick King,” by Steven Daly (November 2004). Want more Depp? View outtakes from François-Marie Banier’s photo shoot with his longtime friend.
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