Rufus Wainwright feels the clock ticking. He’s only 51, but when his mother died at the age of 63 it made him “keenly aware that you’ve got to do what you can while you’re here,” he says, “because it ...

Rufus Wainwright’s earliest memories of singing are basically a hip, 70s version of that bit in The Sound Of Music where the Von Trapp children entertain party guests before being sent to bed, except ...