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Paul McCartney is back with his first new solo album in more than five years. The Boys Of Dungeon Lane – recorded with assistance from Rolling Stones and Elton John producer Andrew Watt – will drop Friday May 29, and sees Paul revisiting his formative years in post-war Liverpool and early experiences with George Harrison and John Lennon long before Beatlemania. The music is being tagged as the most introspective and candid he’s produced so far.
The lead single Days We Left Behind is a guitar-driven track which explores his pre-fame era and draws from his work with The Beatles and Wings. Says Paul: “I do often wonder if I’m just writing about the past but then I think how can you write about anything else? 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 album also contains Paul’s first duet with Ringo, Home To Us, which also features Chrissie Hynde, and which will drop Friday. Last night, Paul previewed the entire album for fifty very lucky fans at Abbey Road.
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