WHAT WE’VE LEARNT

Wainwright’s ● father Loudon wanted her mother Kate McGarrigle to abort her. “Perhaps he should never have told me. I don’t think my mum would have.”

Making 2012’s ● Come Home To Mama with producer Yuka Honda at Sean Lennon’s home studio, Wainwright sang from inside a cupboard containing John Lennon’s Sgt. Pepper jacket.

Van Morrison ● once came onto Martha “in a way that was not only sexist and boorish but uninteresting and sad.”

Wainwright’s ● ex-husband and sometime producer Brad Albetta’s generic name for smaller record labels was “Catbutt Records”.