“Lily arrived with the song titles, which is really unusual. She would come in and say, ‘I want to write a song called Dallas Major,’ and we’re like, ‘OK, let’s have some backstory”: The group songwriting sessions that yielded Lily Allen’s West End Girl

Lily Allen.

It might have been her vision, but Lily Allen’s West End Girl - the hit ‘autofiction’ album that documents the ‘opening’ of a marriage and its subsequent breakdown in bruising detail - was very much a team effort.

Confirmation of this can be found in the credits: there are no fewer than 10 different producers (including Allen herself) and a lengthy list of songwriting collaborators.