| Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and right now, a lot of people are staring at Rufus Wainwright. Sitting behind a piano onstage at New York's Bowery Ballroom, this tall young man in a right white shirt and tie, his hair like a raffish lion, his bone structure positively Olympian.... Gifted and beautiful in a way that hints at a cradleside scum of fairy godmothers, he's 27 years old, the classically trained son of folk royalty and an opera obsessive who writes with such glorious romanticism that a palazzo backcloth would be amiss. -NME |
