Walker Scott

Excellent book. Very well written. It is a must for any Scott Walker fan.

I read the history of Scott Walker; I was very pleased.

A very well produced and accessible biography of this great singer. I own everything written about the man and this is one of the best. The photographs are excellent too.

Great in the early chapters about Scott's life. Lots of new information I didn't know.

This book is just a compilation of other sources such as the (not altogether reliable) Scott Walker: Deep Shade of Blue, as well as The Impossible Dream: The Story of Scott Walker and the Walker Brothers (the Anthony Reynolds book), plus interviews culled verbatim from the Stephen Kijak documentary 30th Century Man and other more recent interviews with Walker published when Bish Bosch came out.I found this rather irritating because even though Stephen Kijak and the other sources are credited in the bibliography, when these interviews come in the book they are not followed by a footnote explaining where they come from, which I found disingenuous because it leaves the impression the author led them and it's not the case.Also the author is clearly totally out of his depth when tackling the latter part of Walker's career, struggling to understand his current musical and extra-musical influences. It would have been nice to know more about the contemporary classical music Walker is interested in to give the reader more context, for example.Also as a latter-day Walker admirer, I'm always surprised nobody goes into other kinds of non-conventional post-rock music (you know, everything from Throbbing Gristle to contemporary Death Metal) that uses non-conventional vocals to drown out all the complaints that "his current music is weird, man!"Aside from this, if you're totally new to Scott Walker's music and want to go a bit deeper than his Wikipedia entry, the book can give you an overall introduction to his work.But I think anybody who really likes Walker's music and especially his latter output since Climate of Hunter would be better off watching the Kijak's documentary, reading the interviews published recently (some of the radio interviews are available on YouTube) and more importantly listen to the Tilt/The Drift/Bish Bosch trilogy.

Wonderful... fabulous memories x

excellent

Scott Walker has confounded his critics and sometimes bemused his fans by steadfastly refusing to conform to the expectations pressed upon him. In this meticulously researched biography, author Paul Woods pieces together the complex jigsaw of Walker's motivations to create a far more resonant portrait of not only Walker/Engel the man, but also the artist. The research is enhanced by an impressive degree of insight and a wealth of interview material from those who know Walker, as well as those who have pursued his legacy. More than a companion piece to the enjoyable 30th Century Man documentary, `The Curious Life and Work Of Scott Walker' stands on its own merit as the most complete account of the Scott phenomenon we're likely to get unless the unthinkable happens and Walker writes his own memoir.