“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

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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.