Want Two
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Want Two is the fourth album by American-Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright. The album was released on November 16, 2004. Four of the tracks on this album were released in the summer of 2004 as the EP Waiting for a Want on the iTunes music store.
Release the Stars
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Release the Stars is the fifth studio album by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, released through Geffen Records on May 15, 2007. Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant was the executive producer; the album was mixed by Record producer Marius de Vries and Andy Bradfield. Wainwright's most commercially successful album to date, Release the Stars charted in 13 countries, reaching Top 10 positions in Denmark, Norway, and the United Kingdom, and was certified gold in Canada and the UK. The album generated three singles: "Going to a Town", which peaked at number 54 on the UK Singles Chart, "Rules and Regulations", and "Tiergarten".
Wainwright and Jörn Weisbrodt at the Metropolitan Opera in 2010; the couple visited Tiergarten in Berlin often while Wainwright recorded the album
Wainwright wrote "Tulsa" after meeting Brandon Flowers (pictured in 2011) in the city of the same name.
Detail from the gigantomachy frieze at the Pergamon Altar that was used for the album cover