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Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces.
Rufus Wainwright
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Rufus Wainwright
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 22
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Singer-Songwriter
Rhinebeck (village)
New York
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright
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The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.
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But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall
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