Paul McCartney has announced what is being billed as “his most introspective album to date,” one that “takes the listener back to where it all began.”
Entitled The Boys of Dungeon Lane and set for release on May 29th, the 14-track LP finds McCartney “in a candid, vulnerable and deeply reflective mood, writing with rare openness about his childhood in post-war Liverpool, the resilience of his parents, and early adventures shared with George Harrison and John Lennon long before the world had ever heard of Beatlemania. These were the years that historians continue to examine, the quiet, unguarded days that unknowingly laid the groundwork for a cultural revolution. Paul visits them not as myths or folklore but as his own memories.”
McCartney crafted the album over the last five years with producer Andrew Watt, laying down tracks during studio sessions in Los Angeles and Sussex in between legs of his recent world tour. In the vein of 1970’s McCartney, the former Beatle played the majority of the instruments himself.
As a preview of, McCartney has shared “Days We Left Behind” as the first single. “This is very much a memory song for me,” McCartney explains. “The album title, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, comes from a lyric in this track. I was thinking just that, about the days I left behind and I do often wonder if I’m just writing about the past but then I think how can you write about anything else? It’s just a lot of memories of Liverpool. It involves a bit in the middle about John and Forthlin Road which is the street I used to live in. Dungeon Lane is near there. I used to live in a place called Speke which is quite working class. We didn’t have much at all but it didn’t matter because all the people were great and you didn’t notice you didn’t have much.”
The Boys of Dungeon Lane is now available for pre-order.
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The Boys of Dungeon Lane Tracklist:
01. As You Lie There
02. Lost Horizon
03. Days We Left Behind
04. Ripples in a Pond
05. Mountain Top
06. Down South
07. We Two
08. Come Inside
09. Never Know
10. Home to Us
11. Life Can Be Hard
12. First Star of the Night
13. Salesman Saint
14. Momma Gets By
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