It was the day the music died. Or rather, it was the day the music journalist died – just a little – on the inside. It is May 2008. At Marillion’s studio, tucked away in the rural idyll of ...

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Yet there’s one superb parable. “Sierra Leone” asks what if the miner (a 16-year-old orphan) who unearthed the third largest diamond found in the West African country had regarded it as a ...