Billboard reports on an advanced listening session of Paul McCartney's upcoming album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, which includes a tune sung with Ringo.
The new LP is out May 29.
Details from Billboard:
Thursday night (April 16), Paul McCartney gave a magical, mystery tour through his new solo album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, for 30 fans.
Hosted at producer Andrew Watt’s newly christened Diamond Dust studio in Los Angeles, McCartney and Watt described the making of the album track by track before playing each song. In between, an animated McCartney, who played two small shows in town only three weeks prior, regaled the audience with sweet stories about his fellow Beatles, before playing a handful of deeply nostalgic songs.
...Overall, the album, which comes out May 29 on Capitol Records, is delightfully Beatle-esque in parts in terms of melodies, instrumentation, bold tempo and stylistic changes and, of course, McCartney’s vocals, which sound by turns sturdy and robust and then delicate and vulnerable. Watt stressed that for the most part (other than the strings and orchestration), McCartney played all the instruments on the album, including drums…though he got a very able assist from Ringo Starr on one track
...Beatle fans will go nuts for this nostalgic track that features Ringo Starr on drums and Starr and McCartney trading vocals line by line as they sing about growing up. But it didn’t come together without some confusion, McCartney explained.
“I saw Ringo and said I worked with this guy Andrew. Ringo came over to Andrew’s studio and played a little bit of drums,” he explained, but then things went slightly off the rails with misunderstandings. Starr thought he’d given Watt enough to create a song, but was “a bit pissed,” McCartney says when it wasn’t enough. McCartney really liked Starr’s contribution and created a song around growing up in Liverpool. “Even though where we lived was a little rough, it was home to us,” McCartney said.
McCartney sent the demo to Starr and asked him to sing on it and, misunderstanding, Starr only sang on the chorus, leading McCartney to think Starr didn’t like the song. Eventually, they talked through everything, and Starr came back, added more drums and the two turned the song into true collaboration.
“Ringo’s never done a duet with one of the Beatles,” McCartney said with a laugh. Not surprising, it’s probably the most Beatle-esque track on the album, with tempo shifts, key changes and layered vocals with assists from the Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde and Texas’ Sharleen Spiteri.
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