![]() His increasing interest in dissonant arrangements, on songs like ‘It’s Raining Today’, and multi-part arrangements, on songs like ‘Plastic Palace People’, foreshadowed his later experimental work. While keeping to the baroque style of the Walker Brothers on the earlier Scott albums, beautiful songs like ‘Montague Terrace’ and ‘Big Louise’ established his poetic, abstract style of lyricism. ![]() Scott gained confidence as a songwriter during this period. On the Scott albums, supposedly still aimed at his teen fanbase, Walker sung Brel’s theatrical songs about gonorrhoea, selling opium and laughing from the afterlife at his own funeral. Walker is most famous in this period for his love of Jacques Brel, the iconoclastic Belgian chanson singer. Far more imaginative than the album’s titles were their contents, featuring striking symphonic arrangements and an abstract lyrical style. They soon found a devoted teen fanbase, allowing them to reach the top of the UK charts with the luscious hits ‘Make It Easy on Yourself’ and ‘The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore’.Īfter the Walker Brothers struggled to follow up their hit records, Scott went solo to release his fantastic Scott albums (simply entitled Scott, Scott 2, Scott 3 and Scott 4). Finding little success in their home country, the group moved to the UK where their romantic baroquenpop set them apart from the Merseybeat sounds of the British Invasion. While John Walker had been their original lead vocalist, chart radio preferred the sound of the group’s second single, ‘Love Her’, which had Scott on lead vocals. He first found fame as one third of the Walker Brothers, none of whom were brothers or born with the name Walker. ![]() ![]() He was born in Ohio with the name Noel Scott Engel. ![]()
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