American singer and songwriter Scott Walker found massive success in Europe in the late '60s as a kind of hybrid of Engelbert Humperdinck and Ingmar Bergman – a golden baritone full of existential anxiety declaiming over lush orchestral arrangements. Along the way, his apocalypticcabaret...
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American-born Noel Scott Engel moved to England in the early '60s and became a teen idol as a third of the Walker Brothers (their big hit was "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore"). By the time they split up in 1967, though, Scott was less David Cassidy than Ingmar Bergman: On the five early solo albums excerpted on It's Raining Today, he'd become devoted to the emotion-wracked, hyperserious songs...
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