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Scott Walker: Scott; Scott2; Scott3; Scott4; Boy Child (Fontana/Mercury)
Review by Rob Chapman, MOJO, August 2000
Scott’s first four post-Walker Brothers solo outings plus a revamped ‘best of’. Originally issued between 1967 and 1969. They got better but sold less and ...
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Interview by Dawn James, Rave, March 1966
Scott Engel isn't supposed to be talkative. On the contrary, his reputation is that of the loner, the quiet one, the unapproachable. RAVE found him ...
Eric Burdon & Scott Engel: Scott Smarts After Burdon's JBJ Slamming
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 11 March 1966
AN INTENSE person, who is over sensitive to criticism of his work, I found Scott Engel (Walker) more than a little irked by Eric Burdon's ...
Mick versus Scott & John — the Truth
Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 16 April 1966
IT'S DIFFICULT — no, IMPOSSIBLE! — to find out exactly how this mud-chucking, insult-flinging bit all started between Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and the Walker ...
Singles from Them, Tom Jones, Percy Sledge et al
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 14 May 1966
Sandie's improved — this is a big hit ...
The Rolling Stones, Percy Sledge et al: The Week's New Singles
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 14 May 1966
Plenty of tips, including a new Stones. Many follow-ups which aren't marvellous, and some outsiders, including Percy Sledge and Jimmy James and the Vagabonds ...
Interview by Mike Grant, Rave, June 1966
SCOTT — BY THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW HIM ...
Scott Walker: A Lot Of Pressures And A Personal Problem
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 3 September 1966
SCOTT WALKER, for the first time, talks about the incident that ended in hospital ...
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 21 January 1967
SCOTT ENGEL, the man likely to be more miserable than most in 1967, was in the highest spirits when I found him at his apartment ...
Interview by Mike Grant, Rave, February 1967
The real Scott Walker is still a mystery to everyone but himself. Thousands of words have been written about him, but they just add up ...
The Walker Brothers: Walker Plans
Interview by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 13 May 1967
AFTER THE SPLIT: NICK JONES PINPOINTS THREE NEW CAREERS ...
The Walker Brothers: Why The Walker Brothers Split Up
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 13 May 1967
"I WANT to make it clear that it was not solely my decision to break up the Walker Brothers, but for the first time in ...
Scott Walker: Scott Keeps One Step Ahead
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 24 July 1967
AND SO THE moving singer, having moved — moves on. Scott Walker is still one jump ahead of the fans in his pursuit of privacy. ...
Scott Walker: Fiesta Club, Stockton
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 12 August 1967
SCOTT SHEDS HIS POP WINGS IN STOCKTON... ...
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 26 August 1967
TRIUMPH FOR SCOTT ...
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 2 September 1967
Scott LP in depth ...
Scott Walker Hides Away In A Gloom-World
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 30 September 1967
BIG LOUIE is the first person you meet when calling at the secluded terrace house, off London's Regent's Park — the latest home of Scott ...
Scott the loner — even more alone than ever
Interview by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, October 1967
Since Scott Engel left the Walker Brothers he's had time to think about being alone. Does he have any regrets, or is he looking with ...
Scott Walker: The Singer Not The Song?
Interview by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, 1968
Can 10,000,000 fans be wrong? ...
Scott Walker: Scott 2 (Philips)
Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 12 April 1968
Scott's LP in depth ...
Scott Walker: Scott 2 (Philips)
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 13 April 1968
SOME PEOPLE have the power to control the emotions of others — to bring them up, or bring them down, just by a word, gesture ...
Scott Walker: I'm Going To Japan By Train
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 18 May 1968
IS SCOTT Walker a monster? This is his image among some of the pop fraternity. Is he a helpless innocent, buffeted by pitiless probings of ...
Scott Walker, The Herd: The Dome, Brighton
Live Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 29 June 1968
GREAT SCOTT! That's my immediate reaction after seeing and hearing Scott Walker break through the scream barrier last Friday evening at the Brighton Dome. The ...
Live Review by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 12 October 1968
NO MORE BREL SONGS FOR SCOTT ...
Scott Walker: Scott His Own Worst Enemy
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 1969
SCOTT WALKER is a super talent who will probably never become a Super-Star because he will defeat himself or maybe more simply he will deliberately ...
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 26 March 1969
'It's Raining Today'; 'Copenhagen'; 'Rosemary'; 'Big Louise'; 'We Came Through'; 'Butterfly'; 'Two Ragged Soldiers'; '30 Century Man'; 'Winter Night'; 'Two Weeks Since You've Gone'; 'Sons ...
Scott Engel: Scott 4 (Philips SBL 7913)
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 6 December 1969
Best yet from Scott ...
Scott Walker Comes In From The Cold
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, January 1970
IN 1970 Scott Engel's career appeared to grind to a halt. He practically vanished from the scene. He seemed to be forgotten, discarded, after a ...
Review by Fred Dellar, New Musical Express, 21 September 1974
WE HAD IT ALL is the country album Walker's been planning for sometime. And it's country the Walker way, sophisticated and on velvet. Del Newman ...
Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 14 February 1976
IT'S ONLY mid-afternoon, but the curtains are drawn and the lights are out. The room is in darkness and at first it looks empty. "Hi, ...
Scott Walker: Scott Walker Sings Jacques Brel (Philips)
Review by Tony Fletcher, Jamming!, June 1982
IT DOESN'T matter that this record was released before Christmas, because the, music is all a good thirteen years old anyway; what does matter is ...
Scott Walker: Climate Of Hunter
Review by Biba Kopf, New Musical Express, 17 March 1984
So this is how he reappears... with a genuinely astonishing collection of the most terminal songs ever written. ...
Scott Walker: The Original God-Like Genius
Profile and Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 17 March 1984
"I LIKE to watch people throw darts." ...
The Walker Brothers: After The Lights Go Out, Scott Walker: Boy Child
Review by 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 ...
Scott Walker: “That Francis Bacon, In-The-Face Whoops Factor...”
Retrospective and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, May 1995
TWENTY-TWO YEAR OLD Noel Scott Engel was on the run from Uncle Sam. He was fleeing from a country that would never connect with his ...
Interview by Richard Cook, The Wire, May 1995
Scott Walker, perhaps the most enigmatic singer in recent times, has returned with his first recording since 1984. But is it a work of experimental ...
Scott Walker: Scott/Scott 2/Scott 3/Scott 4/Boychild: 1967-1970
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, August 2000
The Arctic explorer's '60s solo oeuvre remastered with new pix and full lyrix. ...
It Don't Come Easy: Scott Walker’s Five Easy Pieces (Universal)
Review by Mark Paytress, MOJO, 2004
Idiosyncratic. Inspired. Perplexing. Well, how else would you want your multi-disc "Godlike Genius" retrospective served? ...
Scott Walker: Classics and Collectibles
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, December 2005
THE SCOTT WALKER of the '60s and '70s - of Classics and Collectibles - is all about tragic grandeur colliding with Easy Listening: Bergman movies ...
Interview by Graham Reid, Rock's Backpages, May 2006
NO ONE COULD accuse reclusive songwriter and singer Scott Walker of haste. In the time between Walker's last album Tilt and his latest The Drift, ...
Scott Walker: Not Easy on Himself
Interview by Robert Webb, The Independent, 5 May 2006
IN 1995, SCOTT Walker, the moody, boy-band pinup turned existential cult-figure, broke a 12-year silence with the album Tilt. Stark and uncompromising, as brittle as ...
Review by Mark Paytress, MOJO, June 2006
The most extraordinary changeling in pop's 11-year-itch is more twisted, tormented and thrilling than ever. ...
Review by Brendan O'Keeffe, Rock's Backpages, Spring 2006
SCOTT WALKER, mid-'60s pop star turned cult artist, makes Steely Dan look prolific and is about as visible as Syd Barrett. Recluse or not, Walker's ...
Interview by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 9 November 2008
In the sixties, he was part of the celebrated pop group the Walker Brothers – known as America's Beatles – but he rebelled against stardom ...
Tilting and Drifting: The Songs of Scott Walker at the Barbican, London
Live Review by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 14 November 2008
IN LINE WITH his progress from '60s teen heartthrob to reclusive disciple of the avant garde, Scott Walker has long since given up performing in ...
Press Release by Rob Young, 4AD Records, September 2012
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Gaz Coombes: The World's Strongest Fan
Interview by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, July 2018
Ever been curious about what's pumping on Gaz Coombes' stereo? RC's Jamie Atkins was, so he headed to Oxfordshire to find out. ...
From the sun lounger to the electric chair: Scott Walker's experimental genius
Comment by Rob Young, The Guardian, 26 March 2019
Fired up by Noam Chomsky in the late 1970s, the musician's "late style" became a forbidding avant-garde zone that fearlessly engaged the modern world. ...
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