Gary Walker(Musician) Biography 

Gary Walker (born Gary Leeds; March 9, 1942) is an American musician. He was the drummer and vocalist with both the Standells and the Walker Brothers.

Gary Walker Age

How old is Walker? He is 80 years old as of 2023. Walker was born on 9 March 1942, in Glendale, California, United States. He celebrates his birthday on the 9th of March every year.

Gary Walker Education

He has not disclosed information on where he| attended High School or College/ University. The information will however be updated as soon as it is available.

Gary Walker Height|Weight

He stands on an average height of 5 Feet 4 inches and weighs around 70kgs.

Gary Walker Family

He was born and raised in the United State. However, he has not revealed information regarding his family members, this information is currently under review and will be updated soon.

Gary Walker Wife

He has not revealed whether he is in a relationship as he likes to keep his personal life private. However, this information is under review and will be updated as soon as it is available.

Gary Walker Children

He has not revealed whether he has children as he likes to keep his personal life private. However, this information is under review and will be updated as soon as it is available.

Gary Walker Career

Scott Walker was an American-born British singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer. Walker was known for his distinctive baritone voice and an unorthodox career path that took him from a 1960s pop icon to a 21st-century avant-garde musician. Walker’s success was largely in the United Kingdom, where his first three solo albums reached the top ten. He lived in the UK since 1965 and became a British citizen in 1970.

Walker continued to release solo material until his death and was last signed to 4AD Records. As a record producer or guest performer, he worked with a number of artists including Pulp, Ute Lemper, Sunn O))) and Bat for Lashes.

He has been credited as the catalyst in bringing the unrelated Walker Brothers to the UK in 1965 where, for a couple of years, they enjoyed commercial success. He had two minor UK hit singles while still a member of the group in 1966. The Walker Brothers split in May 1967 with all three members going solo.

In 1967 he founded Gary Walker and the Rain. It consisted of Joey Molland (guitar and vocals); Charles “Paul” Crane (lead vocals, guitar); and John Lawson (bass guitar).

As of 2019, due to the death of Scott Walker, Gary is now the last surviving member of The Walker Brothers.

Are the Walker brothers really brothers?

The Walker Brothers. The Walker Brothers were an American pop group of the 1960s and 1970s. It included Scott Engel (eventually known professionally as Scott Walker), John Walker (born John Maus, but using the name Walker since his teens), and Gary Leeds (eventually known as Gary Walker).

Gary Walker Songs

• Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine
  The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore · 1966
• Make It Easy On Yourself
  Take It Easy with the Walker Brothers · 1965
• Land Of 1000 Dances
  Take It Easy with the Walker Brothers · 1965
• Love Minus Zero
  Take It Easy with the Walker Brothers · 1965
• The Electrician
  Nite Flights · 1978
• My Ship Is Comin’ In
  Take It Easy with the Walker Brothers · 1965
• You Don’t Love Me
  2001
  After the Lights Go Out
  The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore · 1966
• Stay With Me Baby
  Images · 1967
• She Makes Me Feel Better
  2010

The Walker Brothers

The Walker Brothers were an American pop group of the 1960s and 1970s. It included Scott Engel (eventually known professionally as Scott Walker), John Walker (born John Maus, but using the name Walker since his teens), and Gary Leeds (eventually known as Gary Walker). After moving to Britain in 1965, they had a number of top-ten albums and singles there. They include the No. 1 chart hits “Make It Easy on Yourself” and “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine (Anymore)”, both of which also made the US top 20. In between the two was the lesser US hit “My Ship is Coming In”.

Formed in 1964, they adopted the ‘Walker Brothers’ name as a show business touch. However, the members were all unrelated — “simply because we liked it.” They provided a unique counterpoint to the British Invasion by achieving much more success in the United Kingdom than in their home country, a period when the popularity of British bands such as The Beatles dominated the U.S. charts.

Scott Walker – lead vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards
Gary Walker – drums, vocals
John Walker – guitar, vocals

1964–1967: The Walker Brothers

As a trio, the Walker Brothers cultivated a glossy-haired and handsome familial image. Prompted by Maus, each of the members took “Walker” as their stage surname. Scott continued to use the name Walker thereafter, with the brief exception of returning to his birth name for the original release of his fifth solo album Scott 4, and in songwriting credits. Initially, John served as guitarist and main lead singer of the trio, with Gary on drums and Scott playing bass guitar and mostly singing harmony vocals. By early 1965, the group had made appearances on TV shows Hollywood A Go-Go and Shindig and had made initial recordings, but the start of their real success lay in the future and overseas.

While working as a session drummer, Leeds had recently toured the United Kingdom with P.J. Proby and persuaded both John and Scott to try their luck with him on the British pop scene. The Walker Brothers arrived in London in early 1965. Their first single, “Pretty Girls Everywhere” (with John still installed as lead singer) crept into the charts but did not place highly. Their next single, “Love Her” – with Scott’s deeper baritone in the lead – was a more substantial chart hit and he became the group’s frontman.

1967–1974: Solo work

For his solo career, Walker shed the Walker Brothers’ mantle and worked in a style clearly glimpsed in Images. Initially, this led to a continuation of his previous band’s success. Walker’s first four albums, titled Scott (1967), Scott 2 (1968), Scott 3 (1969), and Scott: Scott Walker Sings Songs from his TV Series (1969), all sold in large numbers, with Scott 2 topping the British charts. During this period, Walker combined his earlier teen appeal with a darker, more idiosyncratic approach (which had been hinted at in songs like “Orpheus” on the Images album).

While his vocal style remained consistent with Walker Brothers, he now drove a fine line between classic ballads, Broadway hits, and his own compositions, and also included risqué recordings of Jacques Brel songs (translated by Mort Shuman, who was also responsible for the hit musical Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris). Walker’s own original songs of this period were influenced by Brel and Léo Ferré as he explored European musical roots while expressing his own American experience and reaching a new maturity as a recording artist.

Walker was also continuing to develop as a producer. In 1968 (during the brief Walker Brothers reunion and tour of Japan), he produced a single with the Japanese rock group the Carnabeats, featuring Gary Walker on vocals. Upon his return to the UK, he produced a solo album for the Walker Brothers’ musical director and guitarist Terry Smith. In 1968, Walker also produced Ray Warleigh’s First Album.

1975–1978: The Walker Brothers reunite

The Walker Brothers reunited in 1975 to produce three albums. Their first single, a cover of Tom Rush’s song “No Regrets”, from the album of the same title climbed to number 7 on the UK Singles Chart. However, the parent album only reached number 49 on the UK Albums Chart. The two singles from the next album Lines (its title track, which Scott regarded as the best single the group ever released, and “We’re All Alone”) both failed to chart, and the album fared no better.

With the imminent demise of their record label, the Walkers collaborated on an album of original material that was in stark contrast to the country-flavored tunes of the previous 1970s albums. The resulting album, Nite Flights, was released in 1978 with each of the Brothers writing and singing their own compositions. The opening four songs were Scott’s, the final four John’s, and the middle pair were by Gary. Scott’s four songs – “Nite Flights”, “The Electrician”, “Shut Out”, and “Fat Mama Kick” – were his first original compositions since ‘Til the Band Comes In and represented his first steps away from the MOR image and sound he had cultivated since the commercial failure of Scott 4. The extremely dark and discomforting sound of Scott’s songs, particularly “The Electrician”, was to prove a forerunner to the direction of his future solo work.

In spite of a warm critical reception (with his contributions particularly lauded), sales figures for Nite Flights were ultimately as poor as those of Lines. The supporting tour saw the band concentrating on the old hits and ballads and ignoring the songs from their new record. Apparently now fated for a stagnant career on the revival circuit, the Walker Brothers lost heart and interest, compounded by Scott’s increasing reluctance to sing live.

Gary Walker album

Music Albums Gary Walker Album

• No. 1 2009 Nite Flights The Walker Brothers,
• 1978 No Regrets The Walker Brothers,
• 1975 Take It Easy with the Walker Brothers,
• 1965 If You Could Hear Me Now The Walker Brothers,
• 2001 No Regrets – The Best of Scott Walker and The Walker Brothers 1965–1976 1992 The Walker Brothers’ Story The Walker Brothers,
• 1967 Poems Without Words Gary Walker,
• 2017 The Singles+ The Walker Brothers,
• 2001 Color Fields Gary Walker,
• 2017 Dirty Water The Standells, 1966

Gary Walker Salary|Net Worth

He has an estimated salary ranging between $70,000 – $125,000 and has an estimated net worth of $1 Million -$5 Million which sample earns from his music career.