Blade Runner is a great movie with awesome soundtrack. RIP Vangelis.
If i lived in nyc, i’d ride the subway everywhere and be getting me a transfer to Manhattan on the Cantaloop line,
"Isolation" performed by Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck
Fresh off his defamation trial in Virginia, Johnny Depp joined Jeff Beck on stage two nights ago in Sheffield to deliver this credible performance of a classic John Lennon.composition. The audience recording (made on a cell phone) is poor, but the music is there. Glad to see Johnny getting back on his feet, even if he does play with his guitar slung way too low!.
[Edited on 2022-Jul-27: YouTube blocked the audience recording, so I have replaced it with the official version that was released in May of 2021. It is the same video I posted below in post #1356.]
Isolation is one of the better compositions from Lennon's first solo album with the Plastic Ono Band.
Manhattan Transfer is a cool group, but I’m still partial to the group that inspired Manhattan Transfer, and The Real Group, and a lot of other imitators……Lambert Hendricks and Ross. Annie Ross died just a few years ago, and Dave Lambert died quite a while ago, but Jon Hendricks is still alive and kickin’. Here’s a sample of the trio performing Airegin live on stage.
No.
Just… no.
Whoa! Justice for Johnny! 
Good recap of the verdict. Got her for 15mil for defecation of character, all counts!
Now I should find some POTC soundtrack vids to celebrate.
The lyrics are very vague but it’s from an Album called “Love is Here” so take from that what you will. Most people know this song from Metal Gear Solid 3 but I’ve never played that game. This just has really solid vocals in my opinion.
I heard about the Johnny Depp case.
I think the justice system got that one right. 
One singer I found by accident…. the Mike Oldfield reference reminded me of her, she was his singer for a few year but this is a solo song.
Jeff Beck & Johnny Depp – 'Isolation' (2020)
Here is the official version of Isolation released in 2020 by Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp.
This one is a professional recording, and well worth a listen.
Go, Johnny go!
Yeh, I’ve seen a few of these, and was freaking floored. Had no idea he could sing as well as he does.
Renaissance Man…
Depp channels a little John Lennon, for sure!
Of course, you can't go wrong when Jeff Beck handles the arrangement, but it's Depp fronting the group, and doing a bang up job.
Another thing I like is the use of cello. It supplies the long, sustained notes that are usually handled by keyboards.
I was fortunate to be front row directly in front of Rik for the Allied Forces tour.
it was the Third of June….
The movie “Ode To Billy Joe” (which made great use of the song) was directed by Max Baer, Jr., of Beverly Hillbillies fame. Quite a serious movie for a guy who played such a dim-witted character on television.
Bobbie Gentry co-wrote the screenplay for the movie with her hand-picked collaborator, Herman Rauncher (Summer of ’42). The screenplay included several characters based on characters in various songs from Gentry’s outstanding album “Patchwork.”
The movie cost only $1 million to make and astounded the studio by earning over $50 million in its theatrical release. I am guessing that Baer was given the director job because no well-established director had the courage to attach their name to it - but it was a very well-done movie, thanks in large part to the efforts of Bobbie Gentry.
"A study in unconscious cruelty"
Fifty-five years later, Ode to Billy Joe sounds just as fresh as the day it was released. I absolutely love the masterful performance Bobbie Gentry gave for the BBC. Her vocal is remarkably nuanced, and makes the story 100% believable. It is amazing to consider that she was recovering from illness that day.
Wikipedia brings together some of the statements Gentry has made over the years about the song's meaning.
Pretty deep stuff.
Leaving open the reason for Billy Joe's suicide and just what he and the song's narrator threw from the Tallahatchie Bridge was a brilliant compositional device.
I have never seen the movie. Nevertheless, I was disappointed to read in its synopsis on Wikipedia that both were given concrete expression in the film. [Spoiler alert:] In the movie, it was the narrator's rag doll, a symbol of childhood innocence, that the two threw off the bridge. Billy Joe's reason for suicide was shame over a drunken homosexual encounter he had in a brothel.
What?
SPOILER FOLLOWS.
The movie makes clear it was an encounter with an older man in the town - not a brothel. The source of that information is the older man who was involved.
Some were upset that the movie specified facts left vague in the song. Many people assumed the song was inferring the girl had an affair with Billy Joe (who was possibly a black man, which would have been a greater taboo in that location at the time), and that the object thrown off the bridge in the song was their offspring, so they didn’t appreciate the movie story. But I give Gentry and the whole creative crew a lot of credit for having the guts to tell the story they told - and it was a fine use of the song.
Gentry was an impressive woman. She moved from the Mississippi town described in the song to Palm Springs, California at age 13, when her mother remarried. Then she went to college in Los Angeles, where she studied philosophy, among other things.
Yeah, I get it that a mass audience probably liked having the details fill in. It is also worth pointing out the wide gulf there is between a four-minute pop song and a film lasting one hour and forty-five minutes.
I was happy to have the two issues left open in the song. I think it makes for a better narrative, especially in light of Bobby Gentry's statement that "the object thrown was not relevant to the message." It would have been much harder to omit the details in a feature-length film.
Thanks for correcting me about the brothel. I was just going off the synopsis in Wikipedia.
Although it was not intended, I see now that my original post can be taken to imply that Billy Joe was seeking a male companion when he entered the brothel. According to the synopsis in Wikipedia, it was an accident of inebriation.