Joe Jackson is a life-long Scott Walker fan who, after interviewing Leonard Cohen in 1985, became an interviewer "purely to talk with more of my heroes," he says. First on his list was Scott Walker, when they finally did the interview a decade later, Walker thanked Jackson for a review he did of the Climate of Hunter album in 1984 and said it helped him redefine for himself how his music could best be described at that point. They did two in-depth interviews, unlike any ever given by Scott Walker. Both interviews, plus the backstory, will be in the second digital magazine in this two-part series, Scott Walker: Looking Back, 'Through Mirrors Dark and Blessed with Cracks.'
Eight or so years later, Joe Jackson was told that Scott Walker wanted to use in his forthcoming 5 CD box-set, Five Easy Pieces, an in-depth critique he had written in 1990 about Scott Walker's life and work. However, for circumstances that will be explained in the second volume of this series, that critique was not included in the box-set. This is the first time it has been made available unedited and with what the author describes as "the backstory" and his "personal appreciation of Scott Walker."