“We can always go further. However, we must not forget that I remain a rock musician, whether I like it or not. I therefore strive to extend the expressive field of rock, to see how far it can go. I use space as well as material, silence as well as notes.”

Scott Walker - 1996

Noel Scott Engel

Born January 9, 1943, Hamilton, Ohio, U.S.

Mother, Elizabeth Marie (née Fortier). Father, Noel Walter Engel.

Posed black and white promotional portrait of a young Scott Walker, taken around 1958, in formal attire, with slicked-back hair, looking directly at the camera.

1958


Between March 1958 - August 1963 10 singles are released in the US under the name Scott (and Scotty) Engel.

The singles fail to chart nationally but receive local airplay.

1961


Scott Engel meets John Maus, who makes music as John Walker, in Los Angeles.

1963


I Only Came To Dance With You released by The Dalton Brothers (John Stewart & Scott Engel).

1964


Scott and John form The Walker Brothers with Al Schneider on drums. Schneider is later replaced by Gary Leeds, and the group sign to Mercury Records’ Smash subsidiary in the US.

1965, February


The Walker Brothers visit the UK, where they sign to Philips Records.

Close-up of a vintage Philips 45 RPM vinyl record label for 'Pretty Girls Everywhere' by The Walker Bros, arranged by Shorty Rogers.

1965, February 26th


Debut single, Pretty Girls Everywhere / Doin’ The Jerk (Scott Engel), is released in the UK.

Close-up of a vintage Phillips vinyl record label, blue with white text, titled 'Love Her' by The Walker Bros, arranged and conducted by Jack Nitzsche.

1965, April 9th


The group’s second single, Love Her / The Seventh Dawn, is released in the UK.

7 inch vinyl sleeve with a purple silhouettes of women with text 'The Walker Brothers Love Her The Seventh Dawn' and Phillips logo at the top right.

1965, June 17th


Love Her / The Seventh Dawn reaches no. 20 in the UK, becoming the Walker Brothers’ first hit single.

7 inch vinyl sleeve with a black and white photo of The Walker Brothers with shaggy hairstyles. Text on the cover reads 'Make it Easy on Yourself' with a subtitle 'But I do'. Logo of Philips is present at the bottom right.

1965, August


The Walker Brothers’ third single, Make It Easy On Yourself / But I Do, is released in the UK.

Blue Philips vinyl record label with song title "Make It Easy on Yourself" by The Walker Bros, recorded in 1965.

1965, September 29th


Make It Easy On Yourself / But I Do becomes The Walker Brothers’ first UK no. 1 single.

Album cover featuring The Walker Brothers with 1960s fashion and hairstyle, the text "take it easy with the walker brothers," and the Philips logo.

1965, November 29th


The Walker Brothers’ UK debut album, Take It Easy With The Walker Brothers, is released.

cover featuring blue and black sections. The blue section has text that reads "My Ship Is Coming In You're All Around Me," with a small Phillips logo and some numbers. The black section has photos of the Walker Brothers, three men, with bold white text that says "THE WALKER BROTHERS."

1965, November 29th


The Walker Brothers’ fourth single, My Ship Is Coming In / You’re All Around Me, is released in the UK.

Album cover featuring The Walker Brothers, with text introducing them and song titles, and a photo of them in suits.

1965, December


The Walker Brothers’ US debut album, Introducing The Walker Brothers, is released in the US and Canada.

Close-up of a vintage Philips 7" vinyl record with a blue label. It features the song "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More" by The Walker Brothers, with details about the record and production.

1966, February 26th


The Walker Brothers’ fifth single, The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Any More / After The Lights Go Out, Is released in the UK.

Black and single album cover of The Walker Brothers, The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More, featuring a photo of them in suits, with red and black text and the Philips logo.

1966, March 17th


The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Any More / After The Lights Go Out becomes the group’s second no. 1 single. It stays at that position for four weeks.

Album cover featuring members of The Walker Brothers with the title 'take it easy' in blue and white text, and the Philips logo in the top left corner.

1966, March 20th


Take It Easy With The Walker Brothers reaches no. 3, its highest position in the UK album charts, and stays there for five weeks. It stays in the top 20 until September.

Black and white single cover featuring illustrations of the Walker Brothers' three band members' faces. The text reads: '[BABY] YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL ME my love is growing THE WALKER BROTHERS,' with the Philips logo in the top right corner.

1966, July 8th


The Walker Brothers’ sixth single, (Baby) You Don't Have To Tell Me / My Love Is Growing, is released in the UK. Two weeks later, it reaches its peak position of no. 13.

Album cover of The Walker Brothers US release 'The Sun Aint Gonna Shine Any More' featuring the group with 1960s hairstyles, wearing dark clothing, against a dark background. Text includes the album title and song list.

1966, August


The Walker Brothers’ album, The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore, is released in the US and Canada.

Black and white album cover of The Walker Brothers titled "Portrait" featuring stylized portraits of the three band members.

1966, August 26th


The Walker Brothers’ second album, Portrait, is released in the UK.

Cover for The Walker Brothers' single 'Another Tear Falls' featuring black and white portraits of three band members with a yellow section containing the band name and song title.

1966, September 16th


Their seventh single, Another Tear Falls / Saddest Night In The World, is released in the UK, reaching no. 12 four weeks later.

Album cover with three photos of The Walker Brothers with varying hairstyles and fashion, and text reading "The Walker Brothers" at the top and "Deadlier Than The Male" at the bottom, with additional German text and a record label logo.

1966, December 9th


Their eighth single, Deadlier Than the Male / Archangel, is released in the UK, getting to no. 32 three weeks later.

Single cover for the Walker Brothers song 'Stay With Me Baby/Turn Out the Moon' featuring black-and-white photos of the group with different hairstyles.

1967, February 3rd


The Walker Brothers’ ninth single, Stay With Me Baby / Turn Out The Moon is released in the UK and reaches no. 26 two weeks later.

Colourful pop art style album cover featuring The Walker Brothers with different hairstyles and clothing, with the word 'IMAGES' repeated at the top in various colors and the Philips logo in the top right corner.

1967, March 3rd


The Walker Brothers’ third album, Images, is released in the UK.

Single cover for The Walker Brothers' "Walking In The Rain," featuring images of three band members with a pink wavy border and text.

1967, May 12th


Their tenth single, Walking In The Rain / Baby Make It The Last Time is released, and reaches no. 26 three weeks later.

A black and white LP cover showing Scott Walker with styled hair and sunglasses, looking down. Text on the top left corner reads 'SCOTT' and 'SCOTT WALKER'. Top right corner features a logo with the word 'PHILIPS'.

1967, September


Scott Walker’s debut album, Scott is released.

Single cover featuring a young Scott Walker with light brown hair wearing a green shirt, looking pensively to the side against a black background with Japanese text and colorful graphics.

1967, November


Mathilde / My Death is released as Scott Walker’s debut single in Japan.

Vintage 45 RPM vinyl record with blue label featuring the song "Jackie" by Scott Walker, released in 1967 by Philips.

1967, December 1st


Scott releases his UK debut solo single, Jackie / The Plague.

7" Cover - Scott wearing a dark blazer with flower and sunglasses accessories, against a yellow background. Red and blue stylized text at the top with the titles "Scott Walker Jackie The Plague." A black and white Philips logo is on the right side.

1968, January 3rd


Jackie / The Plague gets to its peak position, no. 22.

Album cover with black and white portrait of a Scott Walker passionately performing with eyes closed, mouth open, and holding a microphone, with the text 'Scott Scott Walker 2' in pink and red at the top.

1967, March


Scott 2 is released.

Close-up of a vintage 45 RPM vinyl record with a purple label. The record is titled "Joanna" by Scott Walker, with detailed production and rights information around the label.

1968, April 26th


Joanna is released as Scott’s second single in the UK.

Single cover with black and white close-up of Scott's face. The text Scott Walker's "JoAnna," in bold purple and white text and with bold line design elements.

1968, June 5th


Joanna reaches its peak in the UK singles charts, at no. 7.

Album cover with black and white portrait of a Scott Walker passionately performing with eyes closed, mouth open, and holding a microphone, with the text 'Scott Scott Walker 2' in pink and red at the top.

1968, June 12th


Scott 2 gets to no. 1 in the UK charts, staying in the top 10 for ten weeks.

1968, August 16th


The first pilot episode for Scott’s TV series is broadcast on BBC2.

1968, December 30th


The second pilot episode for Scott’s TV series is broadcast on BBC2.

Album cover featuring a close-up of a heavily made-up female human eye with purple eyelashes, reflecting an image of Scott Walker, with text at the top reading "SCOTT 3 SCOTT WALKER."

1969, March


Scott 3 is released, the album reaches its peak on the album charts at no. 3 on April 6th.

1969, March 11th


The Scott TV series begins on BBC2, and airs for six episodes, until 15 April.

Single cover featuring a portrait of Scott Waker with short hair, wearing a patterned shirt, and text indicating it's titled 'Lights of Cincinnati', with a subtitle 'Two weeks since you gone'.

1969, June 6th


Scott’s third single, Lights Of Cincinnati / Two Weeks Since You've Gone, is released. The single reaches its chart peak position of no. 13 on July 9th.

Album cover featuring a portrait photograph of Scott Walker with two-tone blonde and darker hair, looking downward, with the words 'SCOTT 4' written in the upper left corner.

1969, November


Scott 4 is released.

Album cover featuring a close-up of Scott Walker smiling with text 'SCOTT WALKER 'til the band comes in' at the bottom.

1970, December


Til The Band Comes In is released.

Single cover for Scott Walker's 'I Still See You / My Way Home' featuring stylized black and yellow abstract face illustrations and text.

1971, October 8th


I Still See You / My Way Home, Scott’s love theme for the 1971 romantic drama The Go-Between, Joseph Losey’s adaptation of the LP Hartley novel, with a script by Harold Pinter, starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates, is released as a single.

Album cover of 'Scott Walker: The Moviegester' featuring Scott wearing a cowboy hat with crossed arms, standing against a brick wall with a torn ticket featuring the number 1198 and the words 'Rear Stalls'.

1972, October


The Moviegoer album is released.

Close-up of Scott Walker's face on an album cover with the text 'Scott Walker' and 'Any Day Now', and a Philips logo in the upper right corner.

1973, May


The Any Day Now album is released.

Vintage 45 RPM vinyl record by Scott Walker titled 'The Me I Never Knew', produced by John Franz, released by Philips in 1973, blue label with white text.

1973, May 25th


A single from the Any Day Now album, The Me I Never Knew / This Way Mary, is released.

Close-up of a vinyl record label for Scott Walker's song "A Woman Left Lonely," released on October 26, 1973, with production and arranger credits to Del Newman, produced by CBS Records, Side A, catalog number CBS 1795A.

1973, October 26th


A Woman Left Lonely / Where Love Has Died, a single from Scott’s forthcoming album, Stretch, is released.

A person with short hair, wearing sunglasses, smiling, lying on a bed with white pillows, and wearing a denim vest over a white shirt. The text 'Strickly Jassy & Telewber' is written on the image.

1973, November


Stretch is released.

Close-up of a vintage vinyl record label from CBS Records, featuring the song 'Delta Dawn' by Scott Walker. The label is orange with white and black text, showing record details and production credits.

1974, July 12th


Delta Dawn / We Had It All, a single from his forthcoming album, We Had It All, is released.

Album cover showing Scott with wavy brown hair wearing sunglasses and a denim vest, sitting with his arm resting on his knee, looking serious. The background is blurred with warm tones. Text overlay reads Scott Walker's "We Had It All."

1974, August


We Had It All is released.

Late 1974


The Walker Brothers reunite, and sign to GTO Records.

Album cover of The Walker Brothers' 'No Regrets' featuring all three smiling with long hair, Scott is shirtless drinking a can of beer, with a yellow background.

1975, October


The Walker Brothers album, No Regrets, is released.

Single cover for No Regrets by The Walker Brothers, with b-side 'Remember Me', featuring a black-and-white photo of the three band members.

1975, November 14th


No Regrets / Remember Me is released. The single peaks at no. 7 in the UK charts on February 8th 1976.

Single cover of The Walker Brothers' "Lines/First Day," featuring black and white photos of all three men on a yellow background.

1975, October


Lines, the Walker Brothers' album, is released.

Single cover with stylised wooden plaque image with sketches of the three Walker brothers and the text 'The Walker Brothers Lines' at the top.

1976, September 24th


A single, Lines / First Day, is released.

Line drawing of The Walker Brother's faces with the text "we're all alone" in the top left corner and "The Walker Brothers" at the top.

1976, November 26th


We're All Alone / Have You Seen My Baby? is released.

Black and white album cover featuring distorted portraits of John and Scott with the text 'the walker brothers' and 'NITE FLIGHTS'.

1978, July


Nite Flights is released.

Black and white single cover for The Walker Brothers featuring fragmented, close-up images of Scott & John's faces, with text highlighting their song titles 'The Electrician' and 'Den Haag' and their name.

1978, August 18th


A single, The Electrician / Den Haague, is released.

Album cover with a plain, light-colored background, featuring green cursive text at the top that says 'Fire Escape In The Sky' and at the bottom that says 'The Godlike Genius Of Scott Walker'.

1981, August 28th


Scott’s out-of-print solo recordings are re-released by Zoo Records on Fire Escape In The Sky: The Godlike Genius Of Scott Walker, compiled by Julian Cope.

Single cover with black and white image of Scott Walker with wavy hair looking at the camera with a serious expression, with the words 'Track Three' and 'Scott Walker' written in colorful text nearby.

1984, March 3rd


A single, Track Three / Blanket Roll Blues, is released, accompanied by a music video.

Black and white album cover featuring a close-up portrait of Scott Walker with curly hair, wearing a jacket and white shirt, gesturing with his hand, with the text 'climate of Hunter' and 'Scott Walker' in pink and white.

1984, March


Climate of Hunter is released on Virgin Records.

1992, January


The Walker Brothers compilation, No Regrets – The Best of 1965-76, is released on CD, reaching no. 4 two weeks later.

1990, June 5th


Boy Child: The Best of Scott Walker 1967-70 is released.

1993, May


Two songs written by Scott Walker and Goran Bregović, Man From Reno / Indecent Sacrifice, are released as a single. They come from the score of the Philoméne Esposito film, Toxic Affair, starring Isabelle Adjani.

Album cover for 'Tilt' featuring a motion blurred close-up of a hand with fingers spread over dark, shiny chicken feathers with reflective surfaces, creating an abstract and textured appearance. Chicken eye in top-left corner.

1995, May 8th


After Scott's signing to Fontana Records, Tilt is released.

1999, May 17th


Scott’s first soundtrack album, for Leos Carax’s film, Pola X, is released.

CD Cover for film soundtrack for 'Pola X', original film by Leos Carax, composed by Scott Walker, from the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.

1996, October 31st


An Australian film To Have And To Hold is released, featuring Scott’s cover of Bob Dylan’s I Threw It All Away, from a score directed by Nick Cave, Mick Harvey and Blixa Bargeld.

1996, November 9th


The soundtrack for the James Bond film, The World Is Not Enough, is released, featuring Scott’s recording of Only Myself To Blame, written by David Arnold and Don Black. The song was originally written for the film’s closing credits, but was replaced by a remix of the theme tune. It is the final track of the CD release.

2000, March 27th


Ute Lemper’s album Punishing Kiss is released, featuring a song, Scope J, written by Scott, who also co-produces the album.

Portrait of Scott Walker wearing red-tinted sunglasses and a black shirt in front of a wall of colorful industrial console lights.

2000, June 16th - July 2nd


Scott curates the Meltdown festival at London’s Southbank Centre. The programme includes Dance Project, with new scores by Scott Walker and Orbital, Thimble Rigging, an early version of Scott’s Psoriatic with vocals by Elizabeth Fraser, with the Richard Alston Dance Company choreographed by Martin Lawrence, Ensemble Organum, Jarvis Cocker and Friends, Radiohead, Blur, the Evan Parker Quartet, Mark Anthony Turnage, Cicala Mvta, Smog, Jim O’Rourke, Luc Bondy’s production of En Attendant Godot and a programme of films curated by Scott.

Album cover featuring decorative text 'PULP' with floral and botanical patterns in green and black, and the phrase 'WE LOVE LIFE' in white on a black background.

2001, October 22nd


Pulp’s album We Love Life, produced by Scott, is released.

2004


Scott signs to 4AD. He was asked by Dazed Digital in 2011 if he was “ever pleasantly surprised” that a record label allows him to put out the music that he wants to. “Pleasantly surprised? I positively tingle. Especially given the current state of affairs. I was very fortunate to hook up with them (4AD).”

Dark textured, abstract album cover art with splashes of green and red, featuring the text 'Scott Walker the Drift' in light blue and gray.

2006, May 8th


Scott releases The Drift on 4AD.

Album cover featuring stylised ring of Petri dish bacteria in black on a white background with the text 'Plague Songs' over the top in red.

2006, October 2nd


A project commissioned by Artangel about the Book of Exodus, Plague Songs, is released, including Scott’s song Darkness.

2006, October 31st


Stephen Kijak’s documentary film, Scott Walker: 30th Century Man, has its world premiere at the London Film Festival.

2007, February 16th


Scott Walker: 30th Century Man, has a general cinema release.

Two performers, one in a wheelchair, engaging in a dance or theatrical performance on a dark stage. The man in the wheelchair is holding the woman, who is leaning over him, as part of their act. Another person in a wheelchair is visible in the background.

2006, September


And Who Shall Go To The Ball? And What Shall Go To The Ball?, a piece for contemporary dance company CandoCo, with a score by Scott, premieres in London. An EP follows a month later.

Programme cover titled "Drifting and Tilting: The Songs of Scott Walker" at Barbican. The cover has a dark, textured background with faint line drawings of a person and celestial elements, using red, black, and yellow colors.

2008 November 13th-15th


Drifting and Tilting: The Songs of Scott Walker, directed by Ann-Christin Rommen, is performed at London’s Barbican.

2009, April 6th


Bat For Lashes releases Two Suns, on which is included The Big Sleep, a duet with Scott, who said: “a beautiful, creative young woman asks you to sing with her. Can’t be bad. I don’t generally hang around for results.”

A close-up of a mouth with yellow teeth, open wide, with a rainbow-colored background and digital effects.

2011, June 17th-25th


Duet for One, choreographer Aletta Collins’ re-imagining of Jean Cocteau’s monologue Duet For One Voice, is staged at London’s Royal Opera House Linbury, with an original score by Scott Walker. The production ran as part of the Cocteau Voices double bill.

Album cover featuring a black background with white graffiti-style, dripping paint text that reads 'BISH BOSH'.

2012, December 3rd


Bish Bosch is released.

Cover of an art exhibition catalog titled "Bish Bosch: Ambisymphonic" by Scott Walker, featuring a dark abstract background with white and gray text.

2013, May 24th - June 10th


Bish Bosch Ambi-symphonic, a reimagining of Scott’s Bish Bosch album in collaboration with Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, is presented at the Sydney Opera House.

Album covert featuring a close-up of liquid splashing or bubbling on a dark surface with the logo "scott walker + sunn" in the top right corner.

2014, October 21st


Soused is released, a collaborative album made by Scott and Sunn O))).

Album cover of 'The Childhood Of A Leader' featuring vintage boxing gloves hanging on a wooden frame with an abacus and a speaker, a table with a candlestick, jars, and papers against a textured wall.

2015, August 19th


Scott’s score for Brady Corbet’s The Childhood Of A Leader is released.

Orchestra performing on stage with a conductor, large screen above showing scene from the film 'The Childhood Of A Leader'.

2016, January 30th


Live orchestra performance of the score for The Childhood of a Leader presented as the closing night event of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) at De Doelen concert hall, featuring an 80-piece orchestra.

Event programme cover for BBC Proms featuring 'Late Night Prom: The Songs of Scott Walker (1967-70)' on Tuesday, July 25th from 10:15 pm to 11:30 pm at Royal Albert Hall.

2017, July 25th


Scott Walker Revisited, a BBC Prom celebrating Scott’s first four solo albums, is held at London’s Royal Albert Hall, featuring Jarvis Cocker, Susanne Sundfor, John Grant and Richard Hawley.

Two men dressed in gray outfits working together to walk up an inclined ramp in a dark space.

2017, October 10th - 14th


Contemporary ballet ensemble, Balletboyz, perform The Title is In The Text, Scott’s collaboration with choreographer Javier de Frutos, as part of Fourteen Days, a programme of four new dances, at London’s Sadlers Wells.

Black hardcover book with a stylized design resembling a hoof print on the cover, standing upright with pages slightly visible.

2018, January 11th


Faber publishes Sundog, an anthology of Scott’s lyrics, selected by Scott, with a foreword written by novelist Eimear McBride.

Close-up view of modern, abstract building with curved metallic surfaces reflecting sunset colors.

2018, November 18th


Rubato: (It: Stolen Time), composed by Scott for the LA Philharmonic and new music ensemble WildUp, (It: Stolen Time), conducted by Christopher Rountree, part of is performed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles as part of Noon to Midnight.

Cover of the "VOX LUX" soundtrack featuring a close-up of Natalie Portman in the staring role with bold makeup and rhinestones on her face, illuminated with blue lighting.

2018, December 14th


Scott’s score for Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux, alongside original songs by Sia and Greg Kurstin, is released.

2019, March 22nd


Scott Walker dies in London at the age of 76.