{"id":538851,"date":"2026-04-19T04:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538851\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T04:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:39:08","slug":"beatles-paul-mccartney-and-ringo-starr-to-duet-on-maccas-new-album-the-boys-of-dungeon-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538851\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to duet on Macca’s new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul McCartney<\/a> has revealed that one of the tracks on his upcoming new solo album will feature a duet with his fellow Beatle Ringo Starr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, is Sir Paul’s first solo record in more than five years and will be released on May 29 via MPL\/Capitol.<\/p>\n

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And we now know that one of the tracks \u2013 Home to Us \u2013 features Starr on drums and co-vocals with McCartney.<\/p>\n

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McCartney and the album’s producer Andrew Watt hosted a liostening party for the album in front of a small audience and explained how each track came together.<\/p>\n

Discussing Home to Us, McCartney revealed Starr came into the fold late on and that there has been a misunderstanding over his role.<\/p>\n

Variety<\/a> reports that McCartney said: “Ringo came over to Andrew’s studio and played a little bit of drums.<\/p>\n

“I think Ringo thought that all he had to do was play a little bit of drums, and Andrew would make some marvellous thing out of it.”<\/p>\n

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When he asked the producer to play back Ringo’s part, McCartney was floored.<\/p>\n

He adds: “I thought, ‘Wow, that’s really good. We should make the track that Ringo hoped, and then get it over to him and complete the circle.'”<\/p>\n

This led to McCartney writing a track about growing up in Liverpool and asking Starr to sing with him on it.<\/p>\n

Ringo initially misunderstood and only sang on the chorus, which led McCartney to think the drummer wasn’t a fan of the track. But after talking it through, the song ended up as a duet which Beatles fans will be eager to hear.<\/p>\n

McCartney adds: “It’s a duet. It was really nice, because we’ve never done that. Ringo’s never just taken a duet with one of the Beatles, you know? So, there you go. We had it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney has revealed that one of the tracks on his upcoming new solo album will feature a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-538851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538851","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=538851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}