Scott Walker
Anhören, kaufen oder teilen
Kaufen
7digital
iTunes
Amazon
eBay
-
4.636.354
Scrobbels
-
235.977 Hörer
-
RinTDionysus hört
Scott Walker – Bolivia '95
Biografie
Leben
Noel Engel ist ein Kind deutscher Eltern. 1973 heiratete er seine langjährige Freundin Mette Teglbjaerg in Las Vegas, die er in Kopenhagen kennengelernt hatte, als er dort zeitweilig lebte. Mit ihr hatte Scott Walker bereits eine Tochter Lee. Die Ehe ging Ende der siebziger Jahre in die Brüche. Scott Walker wohnt heute in London.
Frühe Aufnahmen / Walker Brothers
Walker wurde in den späten 1950ern von Eddie Fisher entdeckt und trat mehrfach im Fernsehen auf. Er sollte, ähnlich wie Frankie Avalon, unter seinem Namen Scott Engel zu einem Teenager-Star aufgebaut werden. 1957 veröffentlichte er die Single When is a Boy a Man als Scotty Engel.
Nach seinem Umzug nach Hollywood brachte er sich das Spiel der Bassgitarre bei. Als einer der wenigen Bassisten in Hollywood arbeitete er mit Jack Nitzsche als Studiomusiker. 1961 wurde Engel Bassist der Band The Routers.
Nach dem Ausstieg bei den Routers gründete er in Los Angeles die Dalton Brothers. Ab 1964 nannte sich die Band The Walker Brothers, mit Walker als Bassist und Leadsänger, John Maus als Gitarrist und Sänger und dem Schlagzeuger Gary Leeds. Gary Leeds war bereits mit PJ Proby durch England getourt und schlug vor, sich dort niederzulassen. Die Walker Brothers gelangten zu weltweiter Berühmtheit, vorwiegend mit aufwändig arrangierten Popballaden (The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore) und Coverversionen (oft von Burt Bacharach und Hal David).
Top-Titel
Top-Alben
-
Bish Bosch
14.270 Hörer9 Titel
Veröffentlicht am:
-
Scott 4
57.266 Hörer10 Titel
Veröffentlicht am:
-
Scott 3
61.979 Hörer13 Titel
Veröffentlicht am:
-
Scott 2
41.378 Hörer12 Titel
Veröffentlicht am:
Hörtrend
Beginne mit dem Scrobbeln und baue deinen Hörverlauf auf
Last.fm-Benutzer scrobbeln die Musik, die sie in iTunes, Spotify, Rdio und mehr als 200 anderen Musikplayern spielen.
Erstelle ein Last.fm-ProfilShoutbox
-
viniortolano
people missused the term so much that now the definition of it became "a guy who plays his own songs on a acustic guitar". that's why i laugh when i see this tag used only for folk stuff. the guy below is right though
-
jazzthieve
Jeez such a silly discussion: "Singer" a person who sings, "Songwriter"= a person who writes songs, thus "Singer-Songwriter"= a singer who writes his own songs. Not realy sure what an acoustic guitar has to with it. A person who sings and writes his songs using a piano is not a singer-songwriter? A "composer", a person who creates (composes) music. Thus a singer-songwriter can be perfectly considered a composer because he composes a song. For some stupid reason people get it their head that a singer-songwriter must use an acoustic guitar and a composer is someone more oriented toward instrumental or classical music.
-
viniortolano
i bet you got that information on wikipedia didn't you, silly goose?
-
viniortolano
singer-songwriter = a guy who make songs based on an acustic guitar? thats some knowledge right here!
-
Pk_Henry
The definition you give of a composer is artificial and disputable. A composer can be anyone who creates music, a composer can - and usually is - a songwriter. What you are implying is that a "composer" is someone who composes "art" contrasting with others that simply do music. A composer of sonatas isn't more musician than someone who writes rock, both are musicians in the same sense, the difficulty of writing a music isn't only sustained by the category you attribute to his creator. Of course some arrangements of Scott Walker, for instance, are made not to be played live but that isn't a specific characteristic of all those who can be inscribed as "composers", on the contrary, most composers want their compositions to be "played live". Actually, the main reason Scott Walker doesn't play his songs live may be the fact he refuses to do it. Many of his composition could be played live, as most of John Cage were.
-
Pk_Henry
No. A composer doesn't write "songs" by any traditional definition of the word. He usually sends an e-mail to Zeus and then waits he launches a lighting bolt directly to his head with the exact platonic form of the already made composition.
-
sunheadbowed
You clearly have zero concept of what the definition of 'singer-songwriter' is if you believe an avant-garde composer is one. A composer doesn't even write 'songs' by any traditional definition of the word. I'd love to hear you cover Iannis Xenakis on an acoustic guitar. Or even 'SDSS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)'.
-
Pk_Henry
VV It's an acquired taste. It is different to talk about Scott's singing in the 60's and 70's and to talk about his singing now. In late 60's his voice was much similar of Sinatra's in many ways, at least for me, he sings now with a completely different metric and style.
-
KasparovDeepBlu
V you can cure it with feels
-
Bequeathed
I'm trying to get into Walker, but I have some problems with his voice... I admit I don't like it much. Anyone else has/had the same problem? Is it curable.
-
Pk_Henry
@sunheadbowed: Uh...he isn't? Doesn't "avant-garde composers" write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies? The exact definition of singer-songwriter.
-
Otomo72
-
tomorrowsparty
Does anyone else think The Day the "Conducator" Died sounds a bit like Scott Walker's dating profile summary?
-
sunheadbowed
He's not exactly a singer-songwriter anymore, is he. He's more of an avant-garde composer.
-
Pk_Henry
You forgot the 00's and the 2010's.
-
viniortolano
scott is the best singer-songwriter from his generation, also the 90s. genius indeed
-
BallerCraig
I'm getting a high on the new album. Gorgeous, yummy, lover-lee. George Bish should be Bosched. (Semen and blood on his face when he listens and looks at nice paintings.)
-
BynVacum
...and you are funny too! ^_^
-
beautifuldaddy
the new album is funny
-
Mampato
I finally gave Bish Bosh a listen, a very passive one at that. He's obviously gone for the done-and-trusted austere soundworld again which, whilst exhilarating me in certain segments, made me wish that he'd orchestrated certain sections (the ominous, chilling orchestral blocks of The Drift are sublime). Also, while I have not given the lyrics much notice, they seem even more abstract than usual. The great thing about Tilt and The Drift is that they have cryptic, fragmented little narratives with scathing political satire. (Having said that, I'm sure these lyrics do have a semblance of narrative, I just haven't paid enough notice to them yet.) Overall, if Walker continues in this vein there's the danger of becoming self-parodical. Still, I'm sure this is a fine record which will yield results to me but, as always with Walker, it is not something I can play with regularity.
Alle 987 Shouts
Aktuelle Hörer
Top-Hörer
-
endeSanos
Top-Hörer -
Pk_Henry
Top-Hörer -
DrbSucka
Top-Hörer -
martyredshadow
Top-Hörer
E-Mail-Newsletter
Erhalte exklusive Tour-, Veröffentlichungs- und Promotion-Updates zu Scott Walker von Universal Music.
