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Posted: Tuesday, 22nd May 2007

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Sometimes you just want to listen鈥� And sometimes it鈥檚 fascinating to watch other people listening.

Musicians Jarvis Cocker, Dot Allison, Johnny Marr, Damon Albarn, Alison Goldfrapp, Sting and others, listen to and comment on a their own selections of Scott Walker's early work. Fans like these, and Julian Cope, who published an anthology of Scott Walker songs in 1981, have kept the buzz alive about one of the great enigmas of pop over the years.

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Posted: Monday, 21st May 2007

Listen to samples from tracks featured in Scott Walker.

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from Scott (1967)

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from Nite Flights (1978)

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from The Drift (2006)

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Posted: Friday, 18th May 2007

Scott Walker鈥檚 most recent album The Drift, contains songs inspired by real events, or political ideas. One song, Jesse, seems to juxtapose the death of Elvis鈥檚 twin brother Jesse with the destruction of the twin towers.

Watch Walker in rehearsal for the track Clara, which features a percussionist punching a slab of raw pork. The song's based on the execution of the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, when the fascist leader鈥檚 mistress, Claretta Petacci insisted on dying with him, and Walker recounts memories of seeing newsreel footage of their bodies strung up by their heels as a child. But as Scott himself warns; 鈥淵ou shouldn鈥檛 take the songs too literally鈥�.

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