{"id":496897,"date":"2026-03-26T19:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496897\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T19:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:17:09","slug":"paul-mccartney-announces-nostalgic-new-album-the-boys-of-dungeon-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496897\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney announces nostalgic new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recording sessions took several years, fitted in around McCartney’s hectic touring schedule, as well as the production of the Beatles documentary Get Back and the writing of a memoir about the star’s 1970s band, Wings.<\/p>\n

During that time, the star also won a Grammy for Now and Then, the single billed as the final Beatles track, which was recovered from demos with the help of cutting-edge audio technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the star in reflective mood, the new music promises to incorporate elements of all his previous work – from “Wings style rock” and “Beatles style harmonies” to “McCartney style grooves” (according to the blurb for the album, at least).<\/p>\n

The bird-watching motif was teased in advance, with the star posting a playlist of avian-themed songs on his website, external<\/a> – including the Beatles’ classics And Your Bird Can Sing and Blackbird, as well as his 2005 solo track Jenny Wren.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his Life In Lyrics podcast in 2024, the musician said his interest in birds stretched back over decades.<\/p>\n

“I loved bird watching when I was a kid, because I like to be able to get out of the normal stream of life,” he said. <\/p>\n

“We were about a mile away from quite deep countryside, so I used to just go out on my own, just being away from the normal stuff – school, family life.”<\/p>\n

The title of McCartney’s new album was accidentally confirmed on social media by his brother Mike on Wednesday – after his son spotted posters being put up around Liverpool.<\/p>\n

“Josh saw this teaser for r kids new album ‘The Boys of Dungeon Lane’ in Liverpool yest[erday],” he wrote, external<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The image “was familiar” to Josh, he noted, because “he had designed the… artwork for his Uncle”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recording sessions took several years, fitted in around McCartney’s hectic touring schedule, as well as the production of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-496897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}