No Regrets: Writings on Scott Walker, edited by Rob Young - review

Brian Dillon on Scott Walker's manic pop stardom and long vanishing actHas there been a pop singer more flagrantly reticent than Scott Walker? Summon the YouTube spectre of him in his 1960s pomp and you'll discover a performer seemingly cold-stored at his very moment in the sun. He mimes his part in the Walker Brothers' "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)" (1966) as if from some debilitating distance, and seems just shy of a fastidious shudder when co-singer John Maus goes all snake-hipped for ...

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