Name: Scott 2
Brand: Scott Walker

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Catalogue number

3728847

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-11-18

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Supplier GB

Universal

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Standard:20

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00602537288472

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5108802

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2000-06-02

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Scott Walker

Genre GB

Classic

Label GB

American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Scott Walker was born on 9th January 1943 in Hamilton, Ohio, USA. He gained fame as the lead singer of The Walker Brothers and moved to the UK in 1965 in search of success. He remained a resident of London until his death on 22nd March 2019.

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If Scott Walker's first solo album, 1967's Scott, had been about wilfully laying waste to the pretty-boy pop star image he had established with the Walker Brothers, Scott 2 found him relaxing into the role somewhat, and is probably the better record for it. The basic modus operandi remained the same - epic, string-drenched ballads, written by a combination of Walker and his heroes Jacques Brel and Tim Hardin - but a more playful spirit was directing matters. The difference is reflected in the choice of Brel songs alone.

On Scott, Walker had picked such grim room clearers as "Mathilde"&nbsp;and "My Death". Here, he kicks off with an exuberant romp through "Jackie", Brel's sketch of a cheerfully dissolute rock and roll wastrel (Marc Almond released a barely distinguishable version a couple of decades later). Later, he camps up Brel's hilarious military reminiscence "Next", and contributes a composition of his own called "The Amorous Humphrey Plugg" - it seems reasonable to suspect that Walker had been listening to a fair bit of Anthony Newley around this time.

Scott 2

Music GB

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