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Rufus Wainwright: ‘I call Yorkshire Gold the crystal meth of teas’

Rufus Wainwright will perform at the Proms next week, a double concert of music from his breakthrough albums Want One and Want Two, the first of which was released 20 years ago. He lives with his husband, Jörn Weisbrodt, in California and New York, and shares parenting of their 12-year-old daughter with her mother, Lorca, Leonard Cohen’s daughter. In June Wainwright released an album of folk song collaborations, Folkocracy, celebrating the muscial legacy of his own famous family.

I’m very excited and a little nervous too, because there will be several songs that I haven’t sung in many years and also with

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