S8E15: Rufus Wainwright
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
It’s the final episode of the year from the Rockonteurs and this week Guy and Gary bid season’s greetings to Rufus Wainwright.
Rufus chats about his career, his influences, and his family which includes a brilliant story about his father being baby sat by Judy Garland!
He also talks about his incredibly ambitious new project ‘Dream Requiem’ which is out on January 17th – and is narrated by Meryl Streep.
Find out more here: https://www.warnerclassics.com/release/dream-requiem-rufus-wainwright
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| 0:00.0 | If you like listening to Rockonteurs, then we would love you to subscribe to us permanently. |
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| 0:09.1 | Hello, Gary. |
| 0:10.1 | Hello, Guy. How are you? |
| 0:11.3 | I'm very well. How are you? |
| 0:13.1 | Yeah, good. You know what I never spoke about last time? Maybe I did. I can't remember now. |
| 0:18.1 | But I went to see Beatle 64. Have you seen it yet? |
| 0:20.6 | I've seen the first half of it. |
| 0:22.7 | Why? |
| 0:22.9 | Why'd you give up? |
| 0:24.3 | I'd be up. |
| 0:24.9 | I couldn't get... |
| 0:25.8 | Garrett, I live in the country, mate. |
| 0:27.4 | Sometimes you can't get up. |
| 0:28.7 | Sometimes you... |
| 0:29.0 | For rock and roll? |
| 0:30.5 | What? |
| 0:32.8 | For the kids. |
| 0:34.1 | No, I went on your behalf, of course. In fact, I ate your popcorn because there was an |
| 0:39.1 | empty seat next to mine. Did you read out my telegram? |
| 0:43.8 | Anyway, so what did I think? Well, what did you think? The bit I didn't like were, apart from |
| 0:50.2 | Paul and Ringo, I didn't like the talking heads. So I would have preferred it, I think, |
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