The Walker Brothers: Walkers' Great Bodyguard!
Keith Altham, NME, 11 February 1966
IN STRODE the most enormous pair of grey jeans in the World and stood next to Scott Walker (a mere six foot) making him look like a slightly undernourished Oliver Twist. "I can hear what's wrong," boomed the grey jeans over the deafening playback on the recording studio's stereo. "It's me," he said and trundled back toward the studio.
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