“Going To A Town” by Rufus Wainwright

"Going to a Town" led the way for Rufus Wainwright's Release the Stars, arriving as the album's first single in April 2007 in the US, with Britain getting it in May. He wrote it alone. Sophie Muller, who had shot his very first video, "April Fools", directed the clip: Wainwright plays a D.H. Lawrence type sitting by himself at a table in an isolated room, a huge bouquet of roses appears, a cot turns up, and three veiled women in black mourn their husbands, sometimes in the room with him and sometimes projected like figments of his character's mind. Logo even aired a 20-minute special on the making of it in late April.

The song stayed with him: he cut it again with Anohni for his 2023 album Folkocracy.

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