{"id":451919,"date":"2026-05-30T00:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/451919\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T00:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:36:15","slug":"paul-mccartney-unveils-the-boys-of-dungeon-lane-guests-on-chicken-shop-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/451919\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney Unveils The Boys of Dungeon Lane, Guests on Chicken Shop Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul McCartney<\/a> has revealed his new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane<\/a>. To support the record, he\u2019s made an appearance on the web show Chicken Shop Date, sitting opposite host Amelia Dimoldenberg for a conversation about love, life, Liverpool, and The Beatles.<\/p>\n

Serving as Dimoldenberg\u2019s second episode of Chicken Shop Date in 2026 (the first being Conan O\u2019Brien back in March), McCartney\u2019s turn on the beloved web show was as awkward and charming as you\u2019d expect. McCartney discussed his first guitar and how it felt apart, explained why he doesn\u2019t have any tattoos, confessed that he\u2019s \u201cnever signed a butt,\u201d and told a story of him and original Beatles drummer Pete Best lighting a condom on fire at a hotel in Hamburg (\u201cYou\u2019ve never burned a condom? You haven\u2019t lived \u2019til you\u2019ve burned a condom,\u201d said McCartney). He also discussed his dancing ability and gave Dimoldenberg a few moves as an example, and urged Dimoldenberg, \u201cdon\u2019t plant any marijuana seeds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Dimoldenberg flirted with him over a misheard comment about the Union Jack flag, threw a handful of Beatles references his way, and got deep with McCartney about dreams, love songs, flowers, and more. Watch McCartney\u2019s Chicken Shop Date appearance below.<\/p>\n

Related Video<\/p>\n

Out today, The Boys of Dungeon Lane serves as McCartney\u2019s 20th solo album and his first since 2020\u2019s\u00a0McCartney III.\u00a0It was produced by Andrew Watt and recorded throughout the last five years in Los Angeles and McCartney\u2019s Hogg Hill Mill studio in East Sussex. The album notably features a collaboration with his Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr<\/a>, with Starr contributing drums and vocals to the song \u201cHome to Us.\u201d McCartney has deemed the album to be \u201chis most introspective album to date,\u201d reflecting on his childhood and upbringing in post-WWII Liverpool, the onset of his musical career, and his family.<\/p>\n

McCartney\u2019s been plenty active promoting the new record over the last few months, making appearances on the final episode of\u00a0The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/a>, as the musical guest on the season finale of\u00a0Saturday Night Live<\/a>, and performing a pair of intimate Los Angeles concerts<\/a> back in March.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also opened up about the album and his career in several interviews: He discussed<\/a> an experience seeing Bob Dylan live, which he enjoyed even if he \u201ccouldn\u2019t tell\u201d what songs he was playing, he claimed<\/a> that playing \u201cHey Jude\u201d in the US unites fans in \u201cTrump\u2019s America,\u201d he remarked<\/a> that he doesn\u2019t take selfies with fans because he doesn\u2019t want to feel like a monkey, and he recently teased<\/a> an unreleased duet between him and Prince, taken from the latter\u2019s 2007 live cover of The Beatles\u2019 \u201cThe Long and Winding Road.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stream the new Paul McCartney album below.<\/p>\n

The Boys of Dungeon Lane\u00a0Artwork:<\/p>\n

\"Paul<\/p>\n

The Boys of Dungeon Lane\u00a0Tracklist:
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 (feat. Ringo Starr)
11. Life Can Be Hard
12. First Star of the Night
13. Salesman Saint
14. Momma Gets By<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney has revealed his new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane. To support the record, he\u2019s made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-451919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}