The big picture: Scott Walker, 1943-2019

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The pop great, who died last week aged 76, photographed in 1970, just as his initial creative burst was ending

In 1970, when Dezo Hoffman produced this stylised portrait of Scott Walker, the 27-year-old singer was, as he would later admit, entering a long period of creative decline. Having been a reluctant pop star in the mid-1960s as lead singer of the Walker Brothers, a trio dubbed “the American Beatles”, he had embarked on a singular solo career as a balladeer whose style encompassed American show tunes and the more expressive songs of his hero, the Belgian chansonnier Jacques Brel.

 

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