Scott Walker`s Iconoclastic Career in Music, Told Through 10 of His Best Songs
(WorldNews Music)

Scott Walker, who died on Monday (Mar. 25) at age 76, began as a pop star in the mid-`60s with The Walker Brothers, and then solo later in the decade, merging his Sinatra-inspired vocal stylings with attempts at pop versions of classical “lieder.” After a period of easy-listening records in the early 1970s (sung by an uneasy man), Walker made a hard swerve into the avant-garde. There he’d remain for the last four decades of his life, creating one of the more uncompromising catalogs in pop music. As one of his fans, David Bowie, said in 1995 of Walker: “He’s true to himself, whereas other artists are traitors to themselves.` [readmore:8503835] Here’s a look...