Scott Walker (Noel Scott Engel, January 9, 1943 - March 22, 2019) was an Am… Read Full Bio ↴Scott Walker (Noel Scott Engel, January 9, 1943 - March 22, 2019) was an American-born singer-songwriter, composer and record producer. He is noted for his distinctive baritone voice and for the unorthodox career path which took him from 1960s pop icon to 21st century avant-garde musician.
Originally coming to fame in the mid-1960s singing orchestral pop ballads as the frontman of The Walker Brothers, Walker went on to a solo career balancing a light entertainment/MOR ballad approach with increasing artistic innovations in arrangement and writing. Despite a series of acclaimed albums, a disastrous drop in sales forced him back into straight Middle of the road recordings with little of his own artistic input. This in turn eventually led to a Walker Brothers reunion in the mid-1970s (although the latter eventually moved, by mutual consent, into more avant-garde areas).
From the mid-1980s, Walker revived his solo career while drastically reinventing his artistic and compositional methods, via a series of acclaimed and vividly avant-garde albums. These combined his iconic voice with an unsettling avant-garde approach which owed more to modernist and post-modernist classical composition than to his pop singer past. This change in approach has been compared to "Andy Williams reinventing himself as Stockhausen".
Walker has been a continuing influence on other artists, in particular The Last Shadow Puppets, Marc Almond, Goldfrapp, Douglas Pearce of the band Death in June, Billy MacKenzie of The Associates, David Sylvian, Julian Cope, Antony Hegarty, Thom Yorke, Steven Wilson, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Trey Spruance, Perry Blake, Radiohead, Noah Lennox, Mikael Åkerfeldt, and the Divine Comedy/Neil Hannon.
Walker continued to release solo material until his death, and was signed to 4AD Records. As a record producer or guest performer he worked with a number of artists including Pulp, Ute Lemper, Bat For Lashes and Sunn O))).
Originally coming to fame in the mid-1960s singing orchestral pop ballads as the frontman of The Walker Brothers, Walker went on to a solo career balancing a light entertainment/MOR ballad approach with increasing artistic innovations in arrangement and writing. Despite a series of acclaimed albums, a disastrous drop in sales forced him back into straight Middle of the road recordings with little of his own artistic input. This in turn eventually led to a Walker Brothers reunion in the mid-1970s (although the latter eventually moved, by mutual consent, into more avant-garde areas).
From the mid-1980s, Walker revived his solo career while drastically reinventing his artistic and compositional methods, via a series of acclaimed and vividly avant-garde albums. These combined his iconic voice with an unsettling avant-garde approach which owed more to modernist and post-modernist classical composition than to his pop singer past. This change in approach has been compared to "Andy Williams reinventing himself as Stockhausen".
Walker has been a continuing influence on other artists, in particular The Last Shadow Puppets, Marc Almond, Goldfrapp, Douglas Pearce of the band Death in June, Billy MacKenzie of The Associates, David Sylvian, Julian Cope, Antony Hegarty, Thom Yorke, Steven Wilson, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Trey Spruance, Perry Blake, Radiohead, Noah Lennox, Mikael Åkerfeldt, and the Divine Comedy/Neil Hannon.
Walker continued to release solo material until his death, and was signed to 4AD Records. As a record producer or guest performer he worked with a number of artists including Pulp, Ute Lemper, Bat For Lashes and Sunn O))).
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Scott Walker Lyrics
A Woman Left Lonely A woman left lonely will soon grow tired of waiting And…
Black Rose Way down in Virginia, 'mongst the tall-grown sugar cane Liv…
Delta Dawn Delta Dawn what's that flower you have on? Could it be…
Frisco Depot Frisco's a full day from home, when you can afford…
I'll Be Home I'll be home - I'll be home When your life's in…
Just One Smile Can't I cry a little bit? There's nobody to notice it Can'…
Low Down Freedom Longhaired young girl, here beside me Fittin' my body, warm…
No Easy Way Down Your toy balloon has sailed in the sky, love But now…
Old Five and Dimers Like Me I've spent a lifetime makin' up my mind to be More…
Ride Me Down Easy The highway, she's hotter than nine kindsa hell Rise are as…
Someone Who Cared I saw you cry - were you frightened of darkness? I…
Sundown I can see her lookin' fast in a faded dress In…
Sunshine Sunshine - You may find my window, but you won't…
That's How I Got to Memphis If you love somebody enough, you follow wherever they go Th…
The House Song This house goes on sale every Wednesday mornin' It's taken …
Use Me My friends feel it's their appointed duty They keep tryin' …
We Had It All I can hear the wind a-blowin' in my mind Just the…
What Ever Happened to Saturday Night Seems like a dream now, it was so long ago The…
Where Does Brown Begin To my mind, it all seemed a little strange That the…
Where Love Has Died If my years were less, and my shoes were new I'd…
You're Young and You'll Forget I know that it will make you cry To find that…