Loudon Wainwright III
Born | September 5, 1946 |
Hometown | Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America |
Height | 6'2" (1.88m) |
Spouse | Ritamarie Kelly (m 2005 - present) , Kate McGarrigle (m 1971 - 1977) , Suzzy Roche |
Children | Rufus Wainwright |
Parents | Loudon Wainwright Jr. , Martha Harriet Taylor |
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Loudon Wainwright III: ‘The good news is, think of all the cool people that have died!’
INTERVIEW: On new album ‘Lifetime Achievement’, the 75-year-old troubadour weighs his accomplishments. He talks to Kevin E G Perry about love, death and why being covered by Johnny Cash is worth more than his Grammy
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Martha Wainwright, review: a surprise superstar guest crowns a ramshackle, irresistible gig
This ranks as one of the most fabulously chaotic gigs I’ve ever seen. Martha Wainwright – daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III, and sister of torch song troubadour Rufus – played a two-hour set in which instruments went out of tune, drinks were spilt on stage, her two young sons came on for homespun duets, and her own guitar was, it seemed, unplugged for the entire event.
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Exclusive: Martha Wainwright has written the tell-all we've been waiting for
Martha Wainwright knows you want to ask about her famous family – everybody does. And after a lifetime of fielding curious questions about her mom and aunt, Canadian folk icons Kate and Anna McGarrigle, her dad, American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, 75, and her brother, baroque pop star Rufus Wainwright, 48, she's finally ready to dish with new memoir Stories I Might Regret Telling You. RELATED: Avril Lavigne opens up about her new album, incredible career and what she misses most ab
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Martha Wainwright: ‘I wouldn’t have written memoir if my mother were still alive’
As she releases a witty and painfully honest memoir, Martha Wainwright tells Alex Green about her famous family and how those early years shaped her.
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Stories I Might Regret Telling You by Martha Wainwright review – a hilariously candid memoir
Stories I Might Regret Telling You by Martha Wainwright review – a hilariously candid memoir. She considered herself something of a failure – but the revered singer-songwriter’s autobiography shows her to be one of a kind
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Stories I Might Regret Telling You by Martha Wainwright review – first-class family drama
Stories I Might Regret Telling You by Martha Wainwright review – first-class family drama. Tales of rivalry, love, drugs and difficult births litter the singer-songwriter’s gripping account of life in a dysfunctional music dynasty
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Martha Wainwright: ‘Forget rock excess, life on the road was a juggling act for me’
The Canadian-American singer-songwriter on why she needed to tell a different story in her candid autobiography
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Rufus and Martha Wainwright: ‘When Mum died, we sewed ourselves together again’
Rufus and Martha Wainwright: ‘When Mum died, we sewed ourselves together again’The famous musical siblings revisit their fractious childhood relationship and recreate an old photograph
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Martha Wainwright, review: searing songs of heartbreak from a genuine star
Breaking up is hard to do – but real-life rifts, heartaches, healing and hangovers have obviously formed the raw material for generations of brilliant albums, from artists spanning Marvin Gaye to Fleetwood Mac, Robyn and Lorde. Love Will Be Reborn, the recently released sixth LP from Canadian singer-songwriter and musician Martha Wainwright, can also be added to that playlist.
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The return of the great working-class rock band
On January 1 1983, the American singer Loudon Wainwright III released the finest song I’ve ever heard about growing up in privileged surroundings. Nestled deep amid the wider splendor of the Fame & Wealth album, the autobiographical Westchester County paints a deft and neutrally unapologetic portrait of the artist as a well-heeled young man. “We were richer than most,” he sings, “I don’t mean to boast, but I swam in a country club pool.”
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