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‘I’d dress as Judy Garland and scare my parents’: Rufus Wainwright’s honest playlist
The singer-songwriter rises to Bruce Springsteen and loves the Eurythmics. But why has he had to rebrand as Wainwright?
She’s 13 and not interested in much that I do, but the other day I was singing Begin the Beguine by Cole Porter and she actually came down and asked: “What the hell was that?” So that song has some magic to it. The first single I bought Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by Eurythmics, on 45, from this great record store in Montreal called Phantasmagoria, when I was 10. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend.
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