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I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame.

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Rufus Wainwright
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 22
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Rhinebeck (village)
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