Appreciation: Scott Walker, who turned his back on commercial pop music to become an acclaimed experimental composer
The experimental singer and composer Scott Walker, whose death was reported Monday, carved a remarkable musical path through the past six decades of music, one that commenced in the late 1950s and early 1960s with an avalanche of pop songs.
Walker, whose death was confirmed by his record label, 4AD, was 76. No cause was given.
Across the decades, Walker tapped his artistic ambition to spin his work so far afield of modern popular music - in the process inspiring artists including David Bowie, Marc Almond (Soft Cell) and Jarvis Cocker (Pulp) - that near the end he'd entered another orbit altogether.
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