Scott Walker, experimental pop hero, dies aged 76
- Singer best known for the Walker Brothers and hits like ‘The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine (Anymore)’, but some of his solo works are considered avant-garde classics
Scott Walker, one of the most innovative and enduring songwriters of the 20th century, has died aged 76.
“For half a century, the genius of the man born Noel Scott Engel has enriched the lives of thousands,” said his label 4AD. The cause of death has not been announced.
Walker first came to fame in the mid-1960s in the group the Walker Brothers, before creating a string of solo albums – Scott, Scott 2, Scott 3 and Scott 4 – that are regarded as some of the most adventurous and boundary-pushing pop albums of the era.
He then moved further out to the periphery of the music scene, with an increasingly experimental run of albums, including 1995’s Tilt and 2006’s The Drift, which reflected on Mussolini’s lover, the Srebrenica massacre, and September 11.
His most recent work was music for the Natalie Portman film Vox Lux .