Rufus Wainwright: All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu

photo: Kevin Westenberg Rufus Wainwright has all the trappings of a lounge act: the pathos, the piano, the sense of humour. But unlike most like of his breed he writes most of his own songs and goes high brow by setting three of Shakespeare's sonnets to music and composing an opera. For his new album All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu he went back to basics: it's him, a microphone and a piano. The Wainwrights take things personal - so there is a song about his sister Martha, only mentioning ...

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