We learnt, too, that lead single American Town was the story of how he and his now-wife Cherry first got together in New York, with him recalling his days of “trying to be the good boyfriend” by helping her lug boxes up seven flights of stairs to her new apartment. And why he’d talked activist and writer Scarlett Curtis into doing the illustrations that featured on its sleeve and all around the stage of the Royal Albert Hall tonight. How he’d met its co-writer and producer Aaron Dessner through Taylor Swift while working on the (Taylor’s Version) re-recording of Red. Clearly relishing the hushed reverence that came between each song, he told lots of stories: of how a conversation last Christmas with his dad about Elgar’s Enigma Variations had given him the idea for this record.