Can a true star ever escape the limelight?

Pop history is littered with multiple adulation addicts who wound up in a sorry way. But what becomes of the anti-Icarus? Some longsighted types spot the potential for distortion and danger in the bright lights before it’s too late; how can they maintain their art but escape celebrity’s legendarily sticky glare?

This is the uncommon dilemma now facing Sia Furler, one of the modern world’s most distinctive and successful pop songwriters - ...