"A kind of eureka moment seemed to come when he heard the music of Belgian chansonnier Jacques Brel–he was fond of telling interviewers that he was first exposed to Brel's raw emotion and existential angst by a Playboy bunny he was dating. If the Francophone world had chansonniers–whose huge popularity never precluded their songs from dealing with serious, intellectual topics–then why couldn't the English-speaking world embrace a mainstream star whose music was similarly weighty?"
Alexis Petridis at The Guardian writes a eulogy for the Godlike Genius, Scott Walker.
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