The Walker Brothers: After The Lights Go Out, Scott Walker: Boy Child
Martin Aston, Q, September 1990
AT THE SUGGESTION of their drummer Gary Leeds, who'd just returned from backing PJ Proby, The Walker Brothers shifted camp from the US to the UK and subsequently scored two Number 1s, a Number 3 and three more Top 20 entries between 1965 and 1966.
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