Scott 4

Scott 4 was the first Walker album to consist solely of self-penned songs. The second track on side two, "The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime)", refers to the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. The Albert Camus quote, "A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened", appears on the back of the album sleeve. The quote derives from Camus' essay "Between Yes and No", published in 1958. ==Release and reception==

Scott 4 was released by Philips Records on 7 November 1969 in the United Kingdom. The album failed to chart and was deleted soon after. ==Legacy==

Scott 4 subsequently came to be regarded as one of Walker's strongest works and has been acknowledged in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. It was voted number 760 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000). It has also been praised by the members of Radiohead. ==Track listing==

• Peter Knight – accompaniment director (1, 4, 6, 7) • Wally Stott – accompaniment director (2, 5) • Keith Roberts – accompaniment director (3, 8–10) • John Franz – producer • Keith Grant – engineer • Adrian Kerridge – engineer • John Constable – design ==Release history==