OPINION - Sade's Diamond Life is the perfect London album to conjure up a unique time and place

One of those intermittent social media posts celebrating a record’s anniversary caught my eye this week. According to the superior Californian music site, midtempo.co, it is 40 years since the release of Sade’s exquisite debut, Diamond Life. These spurious album birthdays usually pass me by, but there is still something so unhurried and undercelebrated about Diamond Life, I felt compelled to post my own little tribute.