Early in the band's career, Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham is reputed to have locked Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in a room and told them not to come out until they'd written their first song.
The tune they composed in that inaugural writing session ("Tell Me") wasn't a hit, but it set the template for one of pop music's most successful songwriting partnerships ever.
In mid-November, Sony Music Publishing (Japan) took a leaf from Oldham's book by holding its second annual "songwriters camp" at Sony's recording-studio complex in Tokyo's Nogizaka district.