Artist: Scott Walker Genre(s):
Rock
Indie
Soundtrack
Pop
Discography:
The Drift Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
Scott 2 Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Climate of Hunter Year: 2006
Tracks: 8
Scott 4 Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Scott 3 Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Scott Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Boy Child: The Best of Scott Walker 1967-1970 Year: 2002
Tracks: 20
Pola X Year: 1999
Tracks: 16
Tilt Year: 1997
Tracks: 9
Boy Child Year:
Tracks: 11
One of the virtually enigmatic figures in stone history, Scott Alice Malsenior Walker was known as Scotty Engel when he reduce obscure flop records in the late '50s and early on '60s in the teen matinee matinee idol nervure. He then hooked up with King John Maus and Gary Leeds to condition the John Walker Brothers. They weren't named Baby-walker, they weren't brothers, and they weren't English, just they even so became a office of the Brits Invasion later on moving to the U.K. in 1965. They enjoyed a couple of long time of massive success in that regard (and a duo of hits in the U.S.) in a Righteous Brothers vein. As their full-throated steer vocaliser and head teacher songster, Alice Walker was the dominant artistic force in the grouping, domain Health Establishment split in 1967.
Patch left hand almost terra incognita in his land of origin, Footer launched a enormously successful solo life history in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland with a unique blending of orchestrated, about MOR arrangements with idiosyncratic and glum lyrics. At the altitude of psychedelia, Walker openly looked to crooners like Sinatra, Jack John Luther Jones, and Tony Floyd Bennett for ecclesiastic guidance, and to Jacques Brel for a commodity deal of his material. None of those balladeers, however, would accept call to a greater extent or less the character person subjects -- prostitutes, transvestites, suicidal brooders, plagues, and Chief Joseph Stalin -- that populated Walker's songs. His first infrastructure four albums hit the Top 10 in the U.K. -- his endorsement, in fact, reached number ane in 1968, in the thick of the hippy geological geological era. By the fourth dimension of 1969's
Winfield Scott 4, the singer was authorship all of his material. Although this was perhaps his finest album, it was a commercial message disappointment, and regrettably discouraged him from relying completely upon his possess stuff on subsequent releases.
The '70s were a frustrative period for John Walker, pocked with increasingly sporadic releases and a largely unsuccessful reunion with his "brothers" in the midriff of the 10. His ferment on the Walkers' last album in 1978 prompted marvel from David Bowie and Brian Eno. Subsequently a long flow of hibernation, he emerged in 1984 with an record album,
Climate of Hunter, that john Drew critical raves for a minimalist, trancelike ambience that showed him keeping up on of knife edge '80s john Lackland John Rock trends. This notoriously sequestered figure, world Health Organization has seldom been interviewed or regular seen in world since his days of stardom, emerged from hibernation in 1995 with a fresh record album,
Disceptation. During the following respective long time, he contributed to soundtracks (
To Make and to Hold,
The World Is Non Sufficiency,
Pola X) and aided with recordings by Ute Lemper and Pulp. He didn't release around other record album until 2006.
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