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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Edward Helmore

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

Martha Wainwright
Martha Wainwright brings the female gaze to the rock autobiography. Photograph: Lorne Thomson/Redferns

The 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.

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