Paul McCartney recently announced “The Boys of Dungeon Lane” and released its first single, “Days We Left Behind.” On this record, he revisits his formative years as a musician, including references to his bandmates and The Beatles. Now he confirmed that there is one track, “Home to Us”, in which he duets with Ringo Starr.
Paul McCartney said about his duet with Ringo
“I saw Ringo and said I worked with this guy Andrew. Ringo came over to Andrew’s studio and played a little bit of drums. I think Ringo thought that all he had to do was play a little bit of drums, and Andrew would make some marvelous thing out of it.”
“(Then I saw) what he did, out of curiosity…I thought, ‘Wow, that’s really good… We should make the track that Ringo hoped, and then get it over to him and complete the circle.'”
“It’s a duet. It was really nice, because we’ve never done that. Ringo’s never just taken a duet with one of the Beatles, you know? So, there you go. We had it,” Paul McCartney said during a listening session of the album with the producer Andrew Watt.
“The Boys of Dungeon Lane” tracklist
- As You Lie There
- Lost Horizon
- Days We Left Behind
- Ripples in a Pond
- Mountain Top
- Down South
- We Two
- Come Inside
- Never Know
- Home to Us
- Life Can Be Hard
- First Star of the Night
- Salesman Saint
- Momma Gets By
The idea for the album began five years ago, after Paul spent time with Andrew Watt, who has produced many Rock stars from older generations, including Iggy Pop, Ozzy Osbourne and The Rolling Stones.
“The Boys of Dungeon Lane was first brought into existence five years ago when Paul met producer Andrew Watt for a cup of tea and an exchange of ideas. While playing around on the guitar during the meeting, Paul happened upon a chord that even he didn’t recognise. Undeterred and driven by his experimental nature, Paul carried on changing one note, then another, until he had a three-chord sequence, which Watt suggested they should record.”
“This session yielded the album’s opening track, As You Lie There. Encouraged by his new producer, Paul would flesh out the new track, playing the majority of instruments – much in the spirit of his 1970 solo debut album, McCartney. So began the journey of what became Paul’s 18th studio album credited solely to Paul,” the official press release explained.