Paul McCartneyhas revealed that he and Ringo Starr have recorded a newBeatles reuniontrack,Home To Us, in Los Angeles, telling invited fans last week that 'Ringo's never done a duet with one of the Beatles' as he previewed the song from his upcoming albumThe Boys From Dungeon Lane, due out on 29 May.
The news came after weeks of low-key hints that McCartney's latest project would be a more personal return to his Liverpool roots.Home To Ussits at the heart of that idea, a reflective duet built around the two surviving Beatles' memories of growing up in the city in the 1940s and 50s. The track began, unusually, with Starr recording his drum part two years ago, before McCartney later invited him to add vocals and turn it into a full-blown collaboration.
For context, Starr himself had already let slip that the pair were back in the studio together. Appearing onJimmy Kimmel Liveearlier this week, he confirmed he had worked on a new song with McCartney but stopped short of giving away its name or theme, according to theMirror. What he did share was how the recording unfolded. 'It started two years ago with the drums,' he said. 'It was like in reverse, the drums went on first. It's amusing and very real because that is where we come from.'
At that private playback event in Los Angeles, McCartney told the select audience thatHome To Usbegan as a straightforward session with Starr on drums, before the idea of a vocal duet took hold. The two are understood to harmonise on the chorus, giving fans something they have never actually heard before: the pair trading lines on a new, jointly sung track rather than the familiar set‑ups of one Beatle fronting a song while the other sits behind the kit.
McCartney framed the song as a direct look back at the Liverpool of their youth. He reportedly described their upbringing as 'a little rough, but home to us' and the lyrics are said to lean into that tension between hardship and affection. The title itself wears the sentiment openly.
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The album's broader concept has been set out more clearly.The Boys From Dungeon Laneis billed as a journey back to McCartney's formative years, the period that shaped not just his songwriting but, as the promotional material rather grandly has it, 'the very foundations of modern popular culture.' That might sound like typical record-label hyperbole, but it underlines how consciously McCartney is now curating his own origin story.
To recall, listeners have already had one taste of this backward glance. The opening track,Days We Left Behind, was unveiled last month and serves almost as a mission statement for the album. Speaking about it, McCartney said: 'This is very much a memory song for me. The album title,The Boys of Dungeon Lane, comes from a lyric in this track.'
He went on to describe the pull of those recollections. '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 is a slightly rueful admission from a songwriter who once seemed relentlessly future‑facing. Now, in his eighties, McCartney appears more willing to sit with the ghosts.
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Source: International Business Times UK