History Trivia / ScottWalker

* BuryYourArt: Walker permanently withdrew ''The Moviegoer'', ''Any Day Now'', ''Stretch'', and ''We Had It All'' from print after Music/TheWalkerBrothers reunited in the mid-70s, thanks to the poor critical, fan, and [[CreatorBacklash personal]] reception of them. The four albums marked a severe AudienceAlienatingEra for Walker, nicknamed "the Wilderness Years," where, thanks to a CreatorBreakdown, he exclusively performed GenreMotif/EasyListening covers far-removed from the moodier and more experimental original material that marked his earlier and later output.

* MissingEpisode: His short-lived BBC series, simply titled ''Scott'', has no existing episodes or footage as a result of the BBC’s tape wiping practice. The only traces of the show left are audio of two episodes and a soundtrack album, the latter of which is long out of print and consigned to the dustbin of his “wilderness years” era.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: According to an interview in the ''30th Century Man'' documentary, “Clara”, a song about Benito Mussolini’s mistress Clara Petacci and their executions, was inspired by a childhood memory of Scott watching a newsreel depicting Mussolini and Petacci’s corpses publicly displayed and paraded.

* CreatorBreakdown: Happened after the commercial failure of ''Scott 4'', which was partially brought about by his increasing experimentation. He responded with the largely accessible '''Til the Band Comes In'', which didn't do well either, leading him to resort to GenreMotif/EasyListening {{Cover Album}}s for several years. He wouldn't write original material again until 1978. He was engagingly honest about the fact that nobody ''forced'' him to record albums full of cover versions: he considersedthat he just had [[UsefulNotes/{{Existentialism}} 'bad faith']], for which he blamed nobody but himself.

* CreatorBreakdown: Happened after the commercial failure of ''Scott 4'', which was partially brought about by his increasing experimentation. He responded with the largely accessible '''Til the Band Comes In'', which didn't do well either, leading him to resort to GenreMotif/EasyListening {{Cover Album}}s for several years. He wouldn't write original material again until 1978. He is engagingly honest about the fact that nobody ''forced'' him to record albums full of cover versions: he considers that he just had [[UsefulNotes/{{Existentialism}} 'bad faith']], for which he blames nobody but himself.

** Having had some serious Wilderness Years by anyone's standards, he seems to be determined to keep moving on and not become a JadedWashOut. When he finished ''Tilt'', Creator/FontanaRecords' A&R man came to the studio to listen to it. It was blasting out of massive speakers in the control room and after a couple of songs the A&R man asked if he could listen to it on smaller speakers. Walker said "Actually, do you mind if we don't? Now that it's finished I'm never gonna listen to it again, so I kind of want to remember it like this."

* ExecutiveMeddling: Despite Scott's admittance that his "wilderness years" are his own fault, he was nudged back towards a friendlier image for '''Til the Band Comes In'' by his management. He conceded by appending five covers to the end of the album, and by letting his then-manager Ady Semel censor his lyrics, so as not to "harm old ladies." The rest of it was up to Scott.

* BigNameFan: He has many, including Music/BrianEno, [[Music/{{Blur}} Damon Albarn]], Music/DavidBowie, [[Music/ThePolice Sting]], Music/{{Radiohead}}, Creator/WesAnderson...

* PromotedFanboy: Music/JarvisCocker. Scott produced Music/{{Pulp}}'s final album, ''We Love Life'', and Jarvis sang some of Scott's songs for the live show "Drifting and Tilting: The Songs of Scott Walker". The two are now good friends.

** Having had some serious Wilderness Years by anyone's standards, he seems to be determined to keep moving on and not become a JadedWashOut. When he finished ''Tilt'', Fontana Records' A&R man came to the studio to listen to it. It was blasting out of massive speakers in the control room and after a couple of songs the A&R man asked if he could listen to it on smaller speakers. Walker said "Actually, do you mind if we don't? Now that it's finished I'm never gonna listen to it again, so I kind of want to remember it like this."

* CreatorBreakdown: Happened after the commercial failure of ''Scott 4'', which was partially brought about by his increasing experimentation. He responded with the largely accessible '''Til the Band Comes In'', which didn't do well either, leading him to resort to GenreMotif/EasyListening covers for several years. He wouldn't write original material again until 1978. He is engagingly honest about the fact that nobody ''forced'' him to record albums full of cover versions: he considers that he just had [[UsefulNotes/{{Existentialism}} 'bad faith']], for which he blames nobody but himself.

** Having had some serious Wilderness Years by anyone's standards, he seems to be determined to keep moving on and not become a JadedWashOut. When he finished ''Tilt'', Fontana's A&R man came to the studio to listen to it. It was blasting out of massive speakers in the control room and after a couple of songs the A&R man asked if he could listen to it on smaller speakers. Walker said "Actually, do you mind if we don't? Now that it's finished I'm never gonna listen to it again, so I kind of want to remember it like this."

* PromotedFanboy: Music/JarvisCocker. Scott produced Music/{{Pulp}}'s final album, ''We Love Life'', and Jarvis sang some of Scott's songs for the live show "Drifting and Tilting: The Songs of Scott Walker". The two are now good friends.

* DoingItForTheArt: Having had some serious Wilderness Years by anyone's standards, he seems to be determined to keep moving on and not become a JadedWashOut. When he finished ''Tilt'', Fontana's A&R man came to the studio to listen to it. It was blasting out of massive speakers in the control room and after a couple of songs the A&R man asked if he could listen to it on smaller speakers. Walker said "Actually, do you mind if we don't? Now that it's finished I'm never gonna listen to it again, so I kind of want to remember it like this."

** The 2014 SunnO collaboration was first proposed in 2008 by Sunn O))) to him, but they didn't hear back for so long they feared he ignored their message. Years later they received an acceptance from his manager. It turned out he spent the next five years studying their music and prepared much of the compositions himself and the record was released in 2014. While Sunn O))) intended to perform as his backing band, Scott insisted they both be credited on the front cover.

** The 2014 SunnO))) collaboration was first proposed in 2008 by Sunn O))) to him, but they didn't hear back for so long they feared he ignored their message. Years later they received an acceptance from his manager. It turned out he spent the next five years studying their music and prepared much of the compositions himself and the record was released in 2014. While Sunn O))) intended to perform as his backing band, Scott insisted they both be credited on the front cover.