Article from his record company here.
This is shocking and unexpected. One of the greatest of all time, and certainly responsible for introducuing me to the weirder side of music. RIP
It certainly is sad. His recent records were never less than confronting and completely absorbing, and I learned to really like a Walker Bros Greatest Hits CD almost as much.
The documentary made by Don Was - 30 Century Man - was great and worth tracking down. He had two distinct great lifetimes in music, when most barely achieve one.
For a second I thought you were talking about the former governor of Wisconsin, but then why would that be in CS?
Brian
If it was THAT Scott Walker, the news should be in every forum. (Sorry for the thread shit.)
I don’t recognize Scott Walker, the musician, but with a bit search at least I recognize “All I Do is Dream of You”, which I admit I like. Am I missing something that about him that I should know?
Yes, Scott and his group, the Walker Brothers (not actual brothers) were never that big in America, their homeland, though they did have a hit in “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore”. They were huge in Europe, though. When Scott went solo, his records got increasingly innovative, and since the 90s he found an audience for uncompromising albums like “Tilt” even as his pop-star fans headed for the exits. What tied it together was an amazing voice - it could be soothing or scary, or both at once. Sorry he is gone.
If you are a big Bowie fan, you should read these:
I remember a radio broadcast for Bowie’s birthday. Bowie was in the studio and Scott Walker called in to congratulate him.
Bowie was awestruck. He sounded like a kid who had just met his greatest hero.
A great shame.
And the documentary referred to in post #2 is excellent. Saw it on a big cinema screen when it got a cinema release in 2007.
I was confused, too.
I could edit the title to include [musician], if you’d like.
That’s probably a good idea as people have been confused, I hadn’t considered that.
Scott 4 is a real trip, completely unique mood. It was released around the time of Sgt Pepper and was ignored. It was out of step but timeless.
Yeah, I don’t have a deep catalog of Scott Walker, but I do have Scott Walker 4, and it is a wonderful work through and through. (I also have Scott Walker 2, but it’s 4 that I listen to at least once every month or two.) He’s very much a respected and even revered figure in the music circles I run in (or used to run it is probably more accurate now). And he was the first Scott Walker I thought of when I read this thread, despite living next door to Wisconsin. RIP.
It’s less loungey and Brelly, I think. It was a perfect LP for late night insomnia for me. In those moments I had this strange feeling that we missed something by choosing the fabs over Scott (!?)
Excellent profile and remembrance of Walker today in “The New Yorker:”
They used “Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine” quite effectively in the trailer for the very first season of the Walking Dead. 
https://youtu.be/-fItDquicVo
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I had my timing wrong. I think Scott 1 was around the time of Sgt. Pepper, and 4 was in 1969.
I had never even heard of Scott Walker until reading that Radiohead’s Thom Yorke said the band’s song “Creep” was influenced by him.
Really? Huh. I never noticed that influence, but it’s certainly influenced (some may say more than just influenced) by “The Air That I Breathe” by the Hollies.