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14 March 2006 1 min read

Claire is concerned that children are emulating adults too soon.

I was in my twenties when I bought Marillion's album MisplacedChildhood.

Remember them? Scottish, hairy and music to my ears. Ah, happy days.

I was therefore surprised to read about a comedian who had developed ashow based on Misplaced Childhood. "Scrape that barrel," I thought in mymiddle-aged know-better-now snobbery. Surely he could have come up withsomething a bit more modern.

I decided to find out more. Yes, like me he had loved the music. And thetheme of the show was exactly what it said on the tin - misplacedchildhood - which he feels has been lost over the past 20 years since itcame out.

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