Deep in the Sussex countryside, on the edges of the South Downs and not far from the neolithic chalk giant the Long Man of Wilmington, sits the house of Tim Rice-Oxley. The songwriter and keyboardist of Keane appears to be living in bucolic bliss. A barn has been transformed into a recording studio, the lawn is big enough for a five-a-side football game, and the honeysuckle-scented garden evokes a John Betjeman world of homemade marmalade and frothy ale. You would never guess its mild-mannered owner is a rock star who has sold ten million albums and recently got his band back together after seeing his life spectacularly spin out of control. “Of all the people I know who would have a marriage breakdown, a drink-driving…

Source: The Times June 06, 2019 23:03 UTC