{"id":656109,"date":"2026-05-08T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/656109\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:04:09","slug":"the-stones-have-got-the-stones-sound-its-the-opposite-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/656109\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Stones have got the Stones sound. It\u2019s the opposite with me.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking exclusively in the new issue of MOJO, in UK shops May 12 and available to order for delivery HERE<\/a>, Paul McCartney has discussed the making of his new album,\u00a0The Boys Of Dungeon Lane, and the emotional, 70-year journey behind it.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Paul McCartney: \u201cCan you imagine trying to start another band after The Beatles?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Released on May 29,\u00a0The Boys Of Dungeon Lane<\/a>\u00a0finds McCartney looking back on his life, drawing from eight decades of personal stories stretching back to his childhood growing up in Liverpool, and pouring them into a set of songs that make up what might be his best album of the past 20 years.<\/p>\n

Produced by Andrew Watt, who helmed both The Rolling Stones\u2019\u00a0Hackney Diamonds<\/a>\u00a0and their forthcoming Foreign Tongues, songs such as Life Can Be Hard and bittersweet lead single Days We Left Behind hark back both to events in McCartney\u2019s past and the vintage sound of classic Beatles, Wings, and McCartney solo records, while resisting being tied too closely to his musical legacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re working with the Stones, they\u2019ve got the Stones sound. It\u2019s kind of the opposite with me – we\u2019re trying not to do that,\u201d McCartney explains to MOJO\u2019s Grayson Haver Currin. \u201cThe way we approached this album was: We\u2019ve done that before. Let\u2019s do it different.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCartney first met Watt in 2021, shortly after the producer had won that year\u2019s Producer Of The Year Grammy for his work with Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>, Miley Cyrus and Post Malone. The night before McCartney\u2019s visit to his basement studio in LA, Watt recalls how he woke up in a panic realising he didn\u2019t have any left-handed instruments to hand in case the former Beatle wanted to work on any ideas, so ordered a selection of Macca-friendly gear \u2013 a H\u00f6fner bass, a Rickenbacker bass, an Epiphone Casino, a Martin D-28 from 1969 \u2013 which arrived just before McCartney did.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were just talking, and he says, \u2018You can write a song from anything. Sometimes I just pick a random chord I\u2019ve never played before and go from there,\u2019\u201d Watt remembers. When McCartney looked for a guitar to demonstrate, Watt handed him one of that morning\u2019s deliveries. \u201cSo he played this weird chord and smiled with this boyish charm. He had to resolve it because it was hanging out there so fucking weird. I grabbed a guitar, and we were off.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pair wrote\u00a0The Boys Of Dungeon Lane\u2019s\u00a0opening track As You Lie There that day, beginning a four-year period of sporadic sessions while McCartney toured and Watt worked on\u00a0Hackney Diamonds<\/a>, McCartney having recommended Watt to the Stones\u2019 guitarist Ronnie Wood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came away from the first session thinking, Well, I like him, but he\u2019s a bit pushy,\u201d McCartney tells MOJO of their first encounter. \u201cBut pushy\u2019s not a bad thing in a producer. It\u2019s just enthusiasm from someone who wants to keep making this record. It\u2019s infectious.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unlike 2020\u2019s\u00a0McCartney III,<\/a> which he wrote, performed and produced almost entirely alone at his studio in Sussex during the pandemic,\u00a0The Boys Of Dungeon Lane\u00a0features a number of guest contributions, including, in a subtle nod to Wings, his wife Nancy. On the upbeat Home To Us, McCartney sings not only with The Pretenders<\/a>\u2019 Chrissie Hynde<\/a> and Sharleen Spiteri from Texas, but with Ringo Starr<\/a>. McCartney\u2019s first actual duet with his former bandmate after frequent appearances on one another\u2019s records, the song\u2019s lyrics trace a montage of childhood memories.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings people write often do refer to the past, but it\u2019s hard to just refer to tomorrow. We don\u2019t know what\u2019s gonna happen then,\u201d he says of the albums\u2019 reflective themes. \u201cBut the past is even just talking about yesterday. It\u2019s full of stuff. It\u2019s a rich place to mine for ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to get depressed, so I fight it. It\u2019s not always easy \u2013 in fact, it\u2019s never easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Get the latest issue of MOJO magazine to read our world exclusive interview with Paul McCartney,\u00a0where he tells the full story of his extraordinary new album, The Boys Of Dungeon Lane, and dives into key moments in his musical and emotional past: The Beatles, Wings, meeting Dolly Parton and more.\u00a0More info, and to order a copy for delivery wherever you are, HERE!<\/p>\n

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