Repeatedly, in interviews during his later career, Scott Walker said that the thrust of his lyrics defined his approach to writing music. “The lyric dictates everything on this album,” he said in a ...
“It’s very stark,” Scott Walker says of his music in a 2006 interview for the documentary 30 Century Man. “As I go on, things get starker.” “I have a very nightmarish imagination — I’ve had very bad ...
This story originally appeared in the April 1996 issue of Spin. In honor of Scott Walker’s life and death on March 25, we’re republishing it here. Even before Lou Reed, Scott Walker hid behind dark ...