WALKER BROTHERS - After The Lights Go Out

Remember the days when you bought a 45 RPM and played the A side for the 2,000th time before wondering what joys (or horrors) were on the B side?
Well, after listening to the sensational "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" ad infinitum, I flipped it over and heard "After The Lights Go Out" and it blew me away.
Brilliant vocals as ever by Scott and the lyrics paint the life of a broken heart lving in a tenement building, observing and listening to life of the building. I always have the picture of the scenery from the Hitchcock film "Rear Window". Listen and enjoy.

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[pattiameo]

Lovely song, and THAT VOICE!! Now his music is so abstract it only makes sense to him and just a few others, unfortunately.

[WalkerBros4Ever]

@pattiameo So true about his current "method". Self indulgent to the exclusion of his appreciative fans who love his rich, lilting bass baritone.

[bmckeeb1]

NO 1 EVER CAN COMPERE 2 THE WALKERS .

[WalkerBros4Ever]

@bmckeeb1 Amen 2 that!!!

[pzgdr]

the most existential song lyrics ever..scott walker was a genius..

[WalkerBros4Ever]

Agreed. Such a shame (and a loss) that for last 30-40 years both he as a performer, and the media to try to persuade him to perform, have avoided each other.

[1973bobble]

i absolutly love this song this and mrs murphy i love scott walkers way of telling a story as he sings this song is my song it reminds me of lazy days in my bedsit as a student THANKYOU for this VT x

[bmckeeb1]

GOOOOOOOOOOOOSE BUMPS ..

[honest4sure]

Great song very underrated and didn't get the popular accolades of some of their others.

[spacepatrolman]

@Wisterialodge how did it reduce their chart succes do you mean they should have saved this for an A side well they didnt get a 2 sided hit like the beach boys

[tygrrr]

WalkerBros4Ever..Lord, you read my mind and expressed it wonderfully! I discovered this song the same damn way..finally flipped my 45 over and was just forever blown away!! 45 years later this song still just knocks my ass out!  Thanks for putting it up... If you ever get to Seattle, the beer's on me!

Ty-Grrr

[valbrochet25]

@bmckeeb1

This has to be my favourite WB song - brings back so many memories of my youth and young love!!! Beautiful.

[GerryLayton1]

As NME writer Keith Alston put it, this song is "Pure Walkerama".

When I first heard this song in 1966, I was living in a bed-sit in Leeds, nursing the wounds from a recent break-up. It has been one of my favourite songs since then.

It was written by John Stewart, a fourth Walker Brother who was with them when they arrived in UK. Unused to the right-hand drive UK road system, he stepped off the curb and was hit by a car, breaking his leg and ending his career with the Walker Brothers.