Rufus Wainwright has returned a new man

Rufus Wainwright is about to release a new album, Unfollow the Rules.

BETWEEN 1973 and early 1975, John Lennon split with Yoko Ono, took up with his assistant May Pang and embarked on a period of intense creativity and outrageous behaviour. Lennon later described this time as his “lost weekend”.

Rufus Wainwright, now 46 and a father, has embarked on his fair share of lost weekends across two decades in music, living the life of a rough-and-ready troubadour in New York and further afield.