#46 Owen Hatherley on Scott Walker's strange musical journey

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4.8 • 551 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Owen Hatherley joins me to discuss the music and life of the late Scott Walker. We spoke about his journey from teen heartthrob with the Walker Brothers, to the creator of some of the most challenging music in the history of pop. We discuss the big band, crooner tradition that Walker emerged from, the radical break in his work with 1978's Nite Flights and the political pessimism of his later records. To accompany the episode here is a playlist of Walker's work: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1xEf8KGVxK6IRpKSLc6FOS

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0:35.6	so Welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine.
0:50.8	My name is Alex Dorothy, and today my guest is Owen Hatherley.
0:55.1	We'll be talking about the life music and politics of Scott Walker who died earlier this year. You can listen to PTO on iTunes,
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