Lana Del Rey says she wrote a Bond theme, but it was turned down

Del Rey was in a chatty mood at the Ivor Novellos.

She also revealed that she had turned down the offer of a world tour that was pitched after her headline set at the Coachella music festival this April.

“I decided not to do a stadium tour this year, because I want to go to McCreary County and Kentucky,” she said.

“I want to go meet with the people, and say hi and have breakfast with them.

“It’s not always about just going to every island and picking up money at the stadium.”

And she also talked about the genesis of her Grammy-nominated 2023 album Did You Know There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd – which was largely written during impromptu jam sessions with her then-boyfriend Mike Hermosa.

“It’s funny, every time a producer doesn’t have time for me, someone I’m dating happens to be a prodigious guitar player,” she told BBC News backstage.

“And then, as they’re noodling around on Sundays, I think: ‘Could I have that sequence of chords?’ And they say, ‘Well yeah, if you want them’.

“And that’s how Tunnel came about with Mike Hermosa. It was all done with him on Sundays in his two bedroom apartment in Genesee (California).

“Everything was just easy and I thought, here comes another record.”

But she added: “I was looking to get married, not to have another record!”