Graeme Thomson

Albums should be forced by law to reveal where each song was written

Place is a crucially under-discussed element in the otherwise oversubscribed business of music criticism

Yoko Ono in the lounge of her Manhattan apartment she shared with John Lennon, 8 December 1981 (Getty Images)

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