Jeremy Reed's highly original study of Scott Walker finds him engaged in the assessment of a singer who has grown to become a contemporary legend. Walker's inimitable voice first graced the pop charts in 1965, and the short-lived Walker Brothers embraced a popularity comparable to that of the Beatles or Rolling Stones. As a solo artist Walker quickly achieved international acclaim and recognition with the classic set of albums Scott 1 - 4. But the singer's antipathy to media exposure, and to live performance, gradually led to the singer becoming a virtual recluse.
In Another Tear Falls, Jeremy Reed charts Scott Walker's progress from chart sensation and successful solo singer to the rarely-glimpsed enigma with a sensibility ill-suited to stardom, whose innovative albums Climate of Hunter and Tilt were critically acclaimed as recent masterpieces. With a passionate empathy for his subject's life and work, Reed succeeds in bringing a poet's vision to his evocation of one of the most original voices of all time.
Walker's influence on artists as diverse as David Bowie, Marc Almond, and Julian Cope also forms part of this rich study of one of the greats of popular music.