Last night the BBC’s flagship arts programme Imagine had a special on Scott Walker. There was a lot of promise of “rare insights” and “first time that” but what we really got was a pretty short interview with the velvet tonselled man himself interspersed with a far greater amount of filler in the form of endless musical luminaries saying how great Scott was/is. Some of these were amusing such as Bowie recounting how he discovered Walker after having a relationship with a hand me down girlfriend from Scott who came complete with his record collection. Less insightful were Lulu, Jarvis, Almond, Radiohead and some monk from the Isle of White (or was it Man?) where Scott had gone on retreat. In the end it would have been good just to have had a little more of the man himself.