Martha Wainwright ‘Forget rock excess, life on the road was a juggling act for me’

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The Canadian-American singer-songwriter on why she needed to tell a different story in her candid autobiographyThe rock autobiography is typically a male genre, telling tales of excess so competitive that readers could be forgiven for wishing Keith Richards, Neil Young, Roger Daltrey, et al, would break the monotony by taking up wood whittling.But now comes Martha Wainwright, whose autobiography, published this week, is a female-gaze account of what it takes to juggle relationships, familial and domestic circumstances with life under the stage lights. Continue reading...

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