So, Archie Roach is dead at 66. It’s hard to read of the artistic triumphs and the personal catastrophes without a sense of sorrow despite all the admiration. ‘Took the Children Away’ became an anthem but it’s extraordinary what the man went through both before and after fame finally spread the news of his talents: the arrests, the homelessness, the casual but almost systemic abuse of the boy and young man, jailed, sleeping rough, drinking as if it were the only fuel, told of his mother’s death as if it were the merest formality and then the death of his...