Paul McCartney announces new album “The Boys Of Dungeon Lane”. Listen to the single “Days We Left Behind”

Paul McCartney announces the release of "The Boys Of Dungeon Lane", due out on May 29. It's the former Beatles member's eighteenth solo album, a work presented as an articulate reflection on personal memories that have so far remained on the margins of his public narrative.

The new album

The record gathers episodes and images tied to his formative years, taking a retrospective look that zeroes in on decisive moments in the shaping of his artistic identity. The songs portray Paul in a sincere, vulnerable and deeply reflective light, as he writes with rare candour about his childhood in postwar Liverpool, his parents' resilience, and the early adventures shared with George Harrison and John Lennon, long before the world had ever heard of Beatlemania. Alongside this autobiographical core, there's also room for new love songs, a sign of songwriting that keeps moving between intimacy and narrative ambition.

With "The Boys Of Dungeon Lane", McCartney returns to ground he's explored before, but with a more explicitly personal edge: a work that weaves together memory and present, positioning itself as one of the most introspective chapters of his recent output.

Ahead of the album's release comes the new single from Paul McCartney, "Days We Left Behind" (you can listen to it below).

Speaking about the song, McCartney said: "For me this is a song of memory. The title of the album, 'The Boys of Dungeon Lane', comes from a line in this song. I was thinking exactly about that, about the days I've left behind, and I often wonder if I'm writing about the past, but then I think: how could you write about anything else? They're mostly memories of Liverpool. There's a central part about John and Forthlin Road, which is the street I lived on. Dungeon Lane is nearby. I was in a place called Speke, a working-class area. We really didn't have much, but it didn't matter, because everyone around was great and you didn't even notice you had little."

Preorders for the album are already available here. Here's the full tracklist for "The Boys Of Dungeon Lane":

1. As You Lie There
2. Lost Horizon
3. Days We Left Behind
4. Ripples In A Pond
5. Mountain Top
6. Down South
7. We Two
8. Come Inside
9. Never Know
10. Home to Us
11. Life Can Be Hard
12. First Star of the Night
13. Salesman Saint
14. Momma Gets By

The documentary

Meanwhile, the former Beatle has once again turned the spotlight on his solo beginnings, with the documentary "Paul McCartney: Man On The Run", directed by Morgan Neville. "Paul McCartney: Man On The Run" tells the story of the decade of transformation that followed the breakup of the Beatles and the rise of Wings. Through archival footage, Linda McCartney's photographs, and interviews with Paul, Linda, Mary and Stella McCartney, as well as band members, Sean Ono Lennon, Mick Jagger, Chrissie Hynde and others, the film carefully reconstructs a period often flattened by the historical narrative.

Here's the trailer for "Paul McCartney: Man On The Run" below.

Morgan Neville explains the meaning of the project like this: "When people talk about the great artists of the Seventies, Paul McCartney is rarely mentioned. Not because he wasn't central, but because the weight of what he'd already done with the Beatles kept defining him. With 'Man On The Run' I wanted to watch him running out from under that shadow. It was a path made of unlikely choices: touring in a van, Bruce McMouse, Nigeria, Thrillington, an ode to Scotland. Taken together, those decisions reveal a precise logic. It was the only way to face such overwhelming expectations. During that decade Paul stopped running from something and started moving toward something else: his own voice, family, life. This soundtrack is the musical reflection of that journey".

The documentary is produced by Tremolo in collaboration with MPL Communications and Polygram Entertainment, and will be available on Prime Video from February 27th in over 240 countries. Producers include Morgan Neville, Chloe Simmons and Meghan Walsh for Tremolo, Scott Rodger and Ben Chappell for MPL, Michele Anthony and David Blackman for Polygram Entertainment. Executive producers include Paul McCartney and Caitrin Rogers. McCartney and Neville also serve as executive producers of the soundtrack.

The soundtrack

Alongside it, the official soundtrack "Man On The Run – Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack" has also been released, conceived as a direct companion to the film chronicling Paul McCartney's creative rebirth after the end of the Beatles.

"We achieved what seemed like an impossible dream", commented McCartney, summing up the spirit of a project that looks back on the Seventies as a decade of artistic, family and personal rebuilding.

The soundtrack brings together twelve tracks drawn from the catalogue of Paul McCartney and Wings, mixing classics, hits and rare material. It's a compact yet meaningful snapshot of his output in the post-Beatles years. Among the most notable inclusions are “Arrow Through Me (Rough Mix)”, a previously unreleased version taken from the 1979 “Back To The Egg” sessions, and “Live And Let Die (Rockshow)”, taken from the 1980 concert film “Rockshow”, both available in an exclusive preview on Amazon Music. Added to these is a third unreleased track, “Gotta Sing Gotta Dance”, originally included in the 1973 “The James Paul McCartney TV Special”.

The soundtrack's tracklist and artwork

1. Wings – Silly Love Songs (Demo)

2. Paul McCartney – That Would Be Something (2011 Remaster)

3. Paul And Linda McCartney – Long Haired Lady (2012 Remaster)

4. Paul And Linda McCartney – Too Many People (2012 Remaster)

5. Paul McCartney And Wings – Big Barn Bed (2018 Remaster)

6. Paul McCartney – Gotta Sing Gotta Dance

7. Wings – Live And Let Die (Rockshow)

8. Paul McCartney And Wings – Band On The Run (2010 Remaster)

9. Wings – Arrow Through Me (Rough Mix)

10. Wings – Mull Of Kintyre (2016 Remaster)

11. Paul McCartney – Coming Up (2011 Remaster)

12. Paul McCartney And Wings – Let Me Roll It (2010 Remaster)

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