Het worden dure tijden voor de fans van Rufus Wainwright. De zingende songwriter brengt een box uit met maar liefst 19 cd’s, al zijn bekende albums plus vier cd’s met zeldzaam en live materiaal. De doos komt met een 88 pagina’s tellend boekwerk vol foto’s en verhalen uit de carrière van Wainwright, die nu 20 jaar beslaat. The House Of Rufus komt medio juli uit en zal zo’n 250 euro gaan kosten. Niet lang na de doos verschijnt het nieuwe album van Rufus, geproduceerd door Mark Ronson en bedoeld om de naam Wainwright bekend te maken bij een groter publiek.
A 19-disc Rufus Wainwright box set spanning his career is out on 18 July, with a five-night residency at the Royal Opera House from 18-23 July
House Of Rufus contains:
- Six studio albums: Rufus Wainwright, Poses, Want One, Want Two, Release The Starsand All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu, all now with additional previously unreleased bonus material.
- Two concerts on CD: Milwaukee at Last!!! and the legendary Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall(Two CD), now with previously unreleased songs from the show.
- Four additional CDs:
- Disc 1 features previously unreleased songs and rarities.
- Disc 2 contains many of the songs Rufus has recorded for soundtracks including, “Hallelujah” from the film Shrek.
- Disc 3 is drawn from Rufus’ collaborations with friends and family members such as Leonard Cohen, Teddy Thompson, Loudon Wainwright III, Martha Wainwright, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, The Pet Shop Boys, and Burt Bacharach.
- Disc 4 is made up of the demos from the tape which secured Rufus his first record deal.
- Six DVDs: Live at Fillmore, Rufus Does Judy at the London Palladium, Milwaukee at Last!!!, Release The Stars album commentary and live performance and two feature-length documentaries, All I Want and Prima Donna: The Making of An Opera.
“Rufus Wainwright” – World War III parts of Secrets of the Pop Song Broadcast by BBC Two – 2 july 2011
In the first of a series of exclusive live performances, brought to you with the Observer New Review, Rufus sings Zebulon from his new album All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu.
