Patrick Wolf on the car accident and his comeback: ‘It completely whacked me out for six’

The London singer discusses his five-year absence and how he ‘took the bullet’ for queer musicians who came after him
“Flamboyant.” “Ridiculous.” “Over the top.” When UK musician Patrick Wolf arrived on the scene in the mid-2000s, these were the words that greeted him. The classically trained wunderkind had joined Leigh Bowery’s art collective Minty when he was just 13; he released his first album in 2003 at age 19 – but it featured wor