\u201cAs You Lie There\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe song that came from that first tea meeting was inspired by McCartney\u2019s childhood in Liverpool, England and a neighbor girl. \u201cI really fancied named Jasmine,\u201d McCartney said, looking at his wife and adding, \u201cSorry, Nancy.\u201d The tune starts as a spoken word track, before going into a sweet, then rocking melody, that changes tempo and shape shift throughout. \u201cDo I ever cross your mind as you lie there?\u201d he asks. \u201cAs you lie across the bed, am I there inside your head?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cLost Horizon\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe late Eddie Klein, who worked with the Beatles at Abbey Road and then with McCartney at his studio in Sussex, England, found the track that McCartney said he didn\u2019t remember writing or recording. In England, \u201cwe produced it exactly like the cassette,\u201d McCartney said, and then brought it to Los Angeles to add guitar parts. The chugging, mid-tempo track is a nostalgic look back, with lyrical reminders that \u201ctime makes every moment count\u201d and \u201cyou gotta live for now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cDays We Left Behind\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe first single, released a few weeks ago, is a gentle sentimental nod to his past. \u201cIt\u2019s my memories of Liverpool,\u201d McCartney said. \u201cDungeon Lane was near where I lived, me and George [Harrison]. I would get the bus and the next stop, he\u2019d get on. We\u2019d talk about guitars and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll. It was all coming in. It was all arriving.\u201d\u00a0McCartney also talked about going down to the Mersey shore. \u201cI was a big bird watcher,\u201d he said, drawing a laugh as the audience assumed he meant girl watcher, using the British slang. \u201cNo,\u201d McCartney said, indicated he really meant the winged variety. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u00a0\u201cRipples In a Pond\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tA very upbeat song with McCartney\u2019s vocals pushed front and center and with a bouncy pop production before delving into a spacy, inventive bridge. Written for and about Shevell, McCartney changed the song from third person, \u201cshe\u201d to second person, \u201cyou,\u201d to personalize it more for his wife. During the playback, McCartney even looked straight at his wife of 15 years as he mouthed lyrics including, \u201cI love you more than I ever did before.\u201d McCartney recorded the song in England and then sent it Watt to make it bouncier and dancier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cMountaintop\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tProduced with tape loops, the spacy song is from the perspective of a young girl tripping out with her friends at a music festival. McCartney\u2019s voice is almost unrecognizable in the dreamy song that sounds like a cousin to \u201cLucy in the Sky With Diamonds.\u201d After singing about how everyone\u2019s tripping, McCartney adds, \u201ceveryone\u2019s flipping\/need to get a grip and get away, or do you want to stay.\u201d The adventurous tune, which bursts into psychedelic warp speed at one point with pounding guitars and drums, would sound even more experimental if it weren\u2019t created by the person who, with his friends 70 years ago, completely invented a new language for rock \u2018n\u2019 roll.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cDown South\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tPerhaps the most nostalgic song on the album prompted a revealing story about how McCartney used to hitchhike with both Harrison and John Lennon, often by grabbing a ride with a lorry (truck) driver and heading to Wales or southern England around Exeter. He recalled how once he and Harrison were in Wales and had hopped a ride \u201cin a milk truck. George in the middle. He was sitting right on the battery. George jumped up,\u201d McCartney said, acting it out. \u201cHe had jeans with a zip on the back and it connected with the battery! [Later] he showed me the zip mark [burned onto his body].\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney also took the time to poke fun at Lennon pretending to be poorer than he was. \u201cJohn always used to say \u2014 bless him \u2014 that he was a working-class hero,\u201d before he added the Lennon actually had some very \u201cposh\u201d relatives. \u201cRingo really was working class. George and I were kind of working class,\u201d McCartney said, recalling the time he and Lennon hitchhiked to Paris and one of Lennon\u2019s relatives gave him \u00a3100, which they spent very quickly.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe charming song, rooted in an acoustic guitar, is the literal story on McCartney and Harrison meeting on the bus and growing into hitchhiking friends.\u00a0\u201cIt was a good way to get to know you before we learned \u2018Twist & Shout,\u2019\u201d he sings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cWe Two\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe album contains many inventive twists and turns, but perhaps none more endearing than the creation of this stripped-down tune. As McCartney explained, when EMI got purchased by Thorn Electrical in 1979, the buyer wanted to purge all the equipment from Abbey Road (which EMI owned at the time). <\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney got a lot of the old studio equipment, including a Studer four-track tape machine that the Beatles recorded many of their classics on, the harmonium played on \u201cWe Can Work It Out\u201d and the spinet used on \u201cBecause.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tBecause the Studer could only record four tracks, the Beatles employed a technique called \u201cbouncing down,\u201d which would quickly mix two tracks down to one to free up tracks. McCartney said \u201cI and Ringo would be on bass and drums, which would take up two tracks and then we\u2019d bounce it down to one track. You had to get it right because you couldn\u2019t get it back.\u201d In England, Watt and McCartney wrote the sweet love song, \u201cWe Two,\u201d to record on the Studer and bounced down the tracks. \u201cWe\u2019re particularly proud of the snare drum\u201d on the record, McCartney said, of the song that ends with the sound of the track playing backwards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cCome Inside\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tOne of the album\u2019s pure rock tunes had the audience clapping along with McCartney giving little explanation. \u201cIt\u2019s basically a rocker. Not a lot I can say about it. Just play it,\u201d he said to Watt, who was calling up the songs on his laptop.\u00a0The driving tune includes the message, \u201cOpen up your mind\/open up your heart\/nothing else is keeping us apart.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThat sounds nice,\u201d McCartney said, concurring with the audience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cNever Know\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\t\u201cI was out in California. I\u2019ve always loved that Laurel Canyon vibe of the \u201870s. I was playing guitar trying to get that vibe. This is me trying to do that,\u201d McCartney said of the dense, heavy tune that then veers into a clarinet and then turns heavy again, with McCartney sounding a little like Lennon vocally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cHome To Us\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tBeatle 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\u2019t come together without some confusion, McCartney explained.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI saw Ringo and said I worked with this guy Andrew. Ringo came over to Andrew\u2019s studio and played a little bit of drums,\u201d he explained, but then things went slightly off the rails with misunderstandings. Starr thought he\u2019d given Watt enough to create a song, but was \u201ca bit pissed,\u201d McCartney says when it wasn\u2019t enough. McCartney really liked Starr\u2019s contribution and created a song around growing up in Liverpool.\u00a0 \u201cEven though where we lived was a little rough, it was home to us,\u201d McCartney said.<\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney 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\u2019t like the song. Eventually, they talked through everything, and Starr came back, added more drums and the two turned the song into true collaboration.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cRingo\u2019s never done a duet with one of the Beatles,\u201d McCartney said with a laugh. Not surprising, it\u2019s probably the most Beatle-esque track on the album, with tempo shifts, key changes and layered vocals with assists from the Pretenders\u2019 Chrissie Hynde and Texas\u2019 Sharleen Spiteri.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cLife Can Be Hard\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tA sweet love song written during the COVID lockdown which McCartney and Shevell spent with Shevell\u2019s niece, her husband and their new baby. \u201cIt was very nice. Every day, [Nancy] would ask if she could wake the baby,\u201d McCartney said, once again grabbing an acoustic guitar. As the crowd cheered, he laughed and said, \u201cI haven\u2019t done anything! Let me try again.\u201d The audience again cheered, leading McCartney to very good-naturedly mutter, \u201cpathetic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tHe demonstrated how he created a gentle melody and then would let the baby strum the strings, leading Shevell\u2019s niece and husband to declare that \u201cit\u2019s our song.\u201d\u00a0The genial, simple song is meant to inspire hope for the future.\u00a0\u201cI like that tune,\u201d he said after it played. \u201cIt has very good memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cStar\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tMcCartney was touring in Costa Rica and had a day off, which he planned to spend lathered up with sunscreen poolside. But it was pouring rain most of the day. So, McCartney decided to write a song instead and came up with \u201cStar,\u201d another uplifting song. \u201cThe first star on the night is always special when you see it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt always gives me a little hope.\u201d The sweet, melodic acoustic tune stresses \u201cI know my little world is still alright,\u201d upon seeing the first star pop out each night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cSalesman Saint\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tAnother song that is extremely autobiographical features McCartney writing about his father, James, the \u201csalesman\u201d in the story, and his mother Mary, the titular \u201csaint\u201d and a nurse\/midwife. The couple met during WWII and McCartney\u2019s dad was also a fireman who would put out fires caused from Germany\u2019s bombing raids.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe moved outside of Liverpool with our parents making sure me and my brother, Mike, did ok,\u201d McCartney said, praising the resilience that his parents\u2019 generation exuded during tough times. The track opens with a trumpet and builds from there into a heavy tune with time signature shifts and the message in the lyrics of \u201cThey couldn\u2019t take anymore, but they had to carry on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cMomma Gets By\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe closing track starts as a lush, dramatic piano ballad that expand to strings and an orchestra. \u201cSometimes, writing a song, you don\u2019t draw on memory, you\u2019re making it up,\u201d McCartney said, referencing writing \u201cLady Madonna.\u201d Same with \u201cMomma Gets By,\u201d which includes the opening lines, \u201cMomma gets by, while papa gets high.\u201d But even though papa is a wastrel, Momma loves him with \u201call her heart and soul,\u201d as they struggle to put food on the table. McCartney sings from the perspective of their young son, though he stressed again this was not about his parents.<\/p>\n
\n\tFollowing the conclusion, McCartney noted how no one theme dominates the album (though nostalgia is a pretty recurring them), and that he worried about lack of cohesion. \u201cThen you remember the Beatles albums. We didn\u2019t worry about that,\u201d he said with a little smile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\tThe song that came from that first tea meeting was inspired by McCartney\u2019s childhood in Liverpool, England and a neighbor girl. \u201cI really fancied named Jasmine,\u201d McCartney said, looking at his wife and adding, \u201cSorry, Nancy.\u201d The tune starts as a spoken word track, before going into a sweet, then rocking melody, that changes tempo and shape shift throughout. \u201cDo I ever cross your mind as you lie there?\u201d he asks. \u201cAs you lie across the bed, am I there inside your head?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cLost Horizon\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe late Eddie Klein, who worked with the Beatles at Abbey Road and then with McCartney at his studio in Sussex, England, found the track that McCartney said he didn\u2019t remember writing or recording. In England, \u201cwe produced it exactly like the cassette,\u201d McCartney said, and then brought it to Los Angeles to add guitar parts. The chugging, mid-tempo track is a nostalgic look back, with lyrical reminders that \u201ctime makes every moment count\u201d and \u201cyou gotta live for now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cDays We Left Behind\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe first single, released a few weeks ago, is a gentle sentimental nod to his past. \u201cIt\u2019s my memories of Liverpool,\u201d McCartney said. \u201cDungeon Lane was near where I lived, me and George [Harrison]. I would get the bus and the next stop, he\u2019d get on. We\u2019d talk about guitars and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll. It was all coming in. It was all arriving.\u201d\u00a0McCartney also talked about going down to the Mersey shore. \u201cI was a big bird watcher,\u201d he said, drawing a laugh as the audience assumed he meant girl watcher, using the British slang. \u201cNo,\u201d McCartney said, indicated he really meant the winged variety. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u00a0\u201cRipples In a Pond\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tA very upbeat song with McCartney\u2019s vocals pushed front and center and with a bouncy pop production before delving into a spacy, inventive bridge. Written for and about Shevell, McCartney changed the song from third person, \u201cshe\u201d to second person, \u201cyou,\u201d to personalize it more for his wife. During the playback, McCartney even looked straight at his wife of 15 years as he mouthed lyrics including, \u201cI love you more than I ever did before.\u201d McCartney recorded the song in England and then sent it Watt to make it bouncier and dancier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cMountaintop\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tProduced with tape loops, the spacy song is from the perspective of a young girl tripping out with her friends at a music festival. McCartney\u2019s voice is almost unrecognizable in the dreamy song that sounds like a cousin to \u201cLucy in the Sky With Diamonds.\u201d After singing about how everyone\u2019s tripping, McCartney adds, \u201ceveryone\u2019s flipping\/need to get a grip and get away, or do you want to stay.\u201d The adventurous tune, which bursts into psychedelic warp speed at one point with pounding guitars and drums, would sound even more experimental if it weren\u2019t created by the person who, with his friends 70 years ago, completely invented a new language for rock \u2018n\u2019 roll.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cDown South\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tPerhaps the most nostalgic song on the album prompted a revealing story about how McCartney used to hitchhike with both Harrison and John Lennon, often by grabbing a ride with a lorry (truck) driver and heading to Wales or southern England around Exeter. He recalled how once he and Harrison were in Wales and had hopped a ride \u201cin a milk truck. George in the middle. He was sitting right on the battery. George jumped up,\u201d McCartney said, acting it out. \u201cHe had jeans with a zip on the back and it connected with the battery! [Later] he showed me the zip mark [burned onto his body].\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney also took the time to poke fun at Lennon pretending to be poorer than he was. \u201cJohn always used to say \u2014 bless him \u2014 that he was a working-class hero,\u201d before he added the Lennon actually had some very \u201cposh\u201d relatives. \u201cRingo really was working class. George and I were kind of working class,\u201d McCartney said, recalling the time he and Lennon hitchhiked to Paris and one of Lennon\u2019s relatives gave him \u00a3100, which they spent very quickly.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe charming song, rooted in an acoustic guitar, is the literal story on McCartney and Harrison meeting on the bus and growing into hitchhiking friends.\u00a0\u201cIt was a good way to get to know you before we learned \u2018Twist & Shout,\u2019\u201d he sings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cWe Two\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe album contains many inventive twists and turns, but perhaps none more endearing than the creation of this stripped-down tune. As McCartney explained, when EMI got purchased by Thorn Electrical in 1979, the buyer wanted to purge all the equipment from Abbey Road (which EMI owned at the time). <\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney got a lot of the old studio equipment, including a Studer four-track tape machine that the Beatles recorded many of their classics on, the harmonium played on \u201cWe Can Work It Out\u201d and the spinet used on \u201cBecause.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tBecause the Studer could only record four tracks, the Beatles employed a technique called \u201cbouncing down,\u201d which would quickly mix two tracks down to one to free up tracks. McCartney said \u201cI and Ringo would be on bass and drums, which would take up two tracks and then we\u2019d bounce it down to one track. You had to get it right because you couldn\u2019t get it back.\u201d In England, Watt and McCartney wrote the sweet love song, \u201cWe Two,\u201d to record on the Studer and bounced down the tracks. \u201cWe\u2019re particularly proud of the snare drum\u201d on the record, McCartney said, of the song that ends with the sound of the track playing backwards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cCome Inside\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tOne of the album\u2019s pure rock tunes had the audience clapping along with McCartney giving little explanation. \u201cIt\u2019s basically a rocker. Not a lot I can say about it. Just play it,\u201d he said to Watt, who was calling up the songs on his laptop.\u00a0The driving tune includes the message, \u201cOpen up your mind\/open up your heart\/nothing else is keeping us apart.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThat sounds nice,\u201d McCartney said, concurring with the audience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cNever Know\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\t\u201cI was out in California. I\u2019ve always loved that Laurel Canyon vibe of the \u201870s. I was playing guitar trying to get that vibe. This is me trying to do that,\u201d McCartney said of the dense, heavy tune that then veers into a clarinet and then turns heavy again, with McCartney sounding a little like Lennon vocally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cHome To Us\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tBeatle 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\u2019t come together without some confusion, McCartney explained.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI saw Ringo and said I worked with this guy Andrew. Ringo came over to Andrew\u2019s studio and played a little bit of drums,\u201d he explained, but then things went slightly off the rails with misunderstandings. Starr thought he\u2019d given Watt enough to create a song, but was \u201ca bit pissed,\u201d McCartney says when it wasn\u2019t enough. McCartney really liked Starr\u2019s contribution and created a song around growing up in Liverpool.\u00a0 \u201cEven though where we lived was a little rough, it was home to us,\u201d McCartney said.<\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney 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\u2019t like the song. Eventually, they talked through everything, and Starr came back, added more drums and the two turned the song into true collaboration.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cRingo\u2019s never done a duet with one of the Beatles,\u201d McCartney said with a laugh. Not surprising, it\u2019s probably the most Beatle-esque track on the album, with tempo shifts, key changes and layered vocals with assists from the Pretenders\u2019 Chrissie Hynde and Texas\u2019 Sharleen Spiteri.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cLife Can Be Hard\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tA sweet love song written during the COVID lockdown which McCartney and Shevell spent with Shevell\u2019s niece, her husband and their new baby. \u201cIt was very nice. Every day, [Nancy] would ask if she could wake the baby,\u201d McCartney said, once again grabbing an acoustic guitar. As the crowd cheered, he laughed and said, \u201cI haven\u2019t done anything! Let me try again.\u201d The audience again cheered, leading McCartney to very good-naturedly mutter, \u201cpathetic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tHe demonstrated how he created a gentle melody and then would let the baby strum the strings, leading Shevell\u2019s niece and husband to declare that \u201cit\u2019s our song.\u201d\u00a0The genial, simple song is meant to inspire hope for the future.\u00a0\u201cI like that tune,\u201d he said after it played. \u201cIt has very good memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cStar\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tMcCartney was touring in Costa Rica and had a day off, which he planned to spend lathered up with sunscreen poolside. But it was pouring rain most of the day. So, McCartney decided to write a song instead and came up with \u201cStar,\u201d another uplifting song. \u201cThe first star on the night is always special when you see it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt always gives me a little hope.\u201d The sweet, melodic acoustic tune stresses \u201cI know my little world is still alright,\u201d upon seeing the first star pop out each night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cSalesman Saint\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tAnother song that is extremely autobiographical features McCartney writing about his father, James, the \u201csalesman\u201d in the story, and his mother Mary, the titular \u201csaint\u201d and a nurse\/midwife. The couple met during WWII and McCartney\u2019s dad was also a fireman who would put out fires caused from Germany\u2019s bombing raids.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe moved outside of Liverpool with our parents making sure me and my brother, Mike, did ok,\u201d McCartney said, praising the resilience that his parents\u2019 generation exuded during tough times. The track opens with a trumpet and builds from there into a heavy tune with time signature shifts and the message in the lyrics of \u201cThey couldn\u2019t take anymore, but they had to carry on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cMomma Gets By\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe closing track starts as a lush, dramatic piano ballad that expand to strings and an orchestra. \u201cSometimes, writing a song, you don\u2019t draw on memory, you\u2019re making it up,\u201d McCartney said, referencing writing \u201cLady Madonna.\u201d Same with \u201cMomma Gets By,\u201d which includes the opening lines, \u201cMomma gets by, while papa gets high.\u201d But even though papa is a wastrel, Momma loves him with \u201call her heart and soul,\u201d as they struggle to put food on the table. McCartney sings from the perspective of their young son, though he stressed again this was not about his parents.<\/p>\n
\n\tFollowing the conclusion, McCartney noted how no one theme dominates the album (though nostalgia is a pretty recurring them), and that he worried about lack of cohesion. \u201cThen you remember the Beatles albums. We didn\u2019t worry about that,\u201d he said with a little smile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/P115PYZ3-e1776413955372.jpg?w=1024″] 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\u2019s newly christened Diamond Dust studio in Sherman Oaks, McCartney and Watt described the making of the album track by track before playing each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1887235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tThe late Eddie Klein, who worked with the Beatles at Abbey Road and then with McCartney at his studio in Sussex, England, found the track that McCartney said he didn\u2019t remember writing or recording. In England, \u201cwe produced it exactly like the cassette,\u201d McCartney said, and then brought it to Los Angeles to add guitar parts. The chugging, mid-tempo track is a nostalgic look back, with lyrical reminders that \u201ctime makes every moment count\u201d and \u201cyou gotta live for now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cDays We Left Behind\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe first single, released a few weeks ago, is a gentle sentimental nod to his past. \u201cIt\u2019s my memories of Liverpool,\u201d McCartney said. \u201cDungeon Lane was near where I lived, me and George [Harrison]. I would get the bus and the next stop, he\u2019d get on. We\u2019d talk about guitars and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll. It was all coming in. It was all arriving.\u201d\u00a0McCartney also talked about going down to the Mersey shore. \u201cI was a big bird watcher,\u201d he said, drawing a laugh as the audience assumed he meant girl watcher, using the British slang. \u201cNo,\u201d McCartney said, indicated he really meant the winged variety. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u00a0\u201cRipples In a Pond\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tA very upbeat song with McCartney\u2019s vocals pushed front and center and with a bouncy pop production before delving into a spacy, inventive bridge. Written for and about Shevell, McCartney changed the song from third person, \u201cshe\u201d to second person, \u201cyou,\u201d to personalize it more for his wife. During the playback, McCartney even looked straight at his wife of 15 years as he mouthed lyrics including, \u201cI love you more than I ever did before.\u201d McCartney recorded the song in England and then sent it Watt to make it bouncier and dancier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cMountaintop\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tProduced with tape loops, the spacy song is from the perspective of a young girl tripping out with her friends at a music festival. McCartney\u2019s voice is almost unrecognizable in the dreamy song that sounds like a cousin to \u201cLucy in the Sky With Diamonds.\u201d After singing about how everyone\u2019s tripping, McCartney adds, \u201ceveryone\u2019s flipping\/need to get a grip and get away, or do you want to stay.\u201d The adventurous tune, which bursts into psychedelic warp speed at one point with pounding guitars and drums, would sound even more experimental if it weren\u2019t created by the person who, with his friends 70 years ago, completely invented a new language for rock \u2018n\u2019 roll.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cDown South\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tPerhaps the most nostalgic song on the album prompted a revealing story about how McCartney used to hitchhike with both Harrison and John Lennon, often by grabbing a ride with a lorry (truck) driver and heading to Wales or southern England around Exeter. He recalled how once he and Harrison were in Wales and had hopped a ride \u201cin a milk truck. George in the middle. He was sitting right on the battery. George jumped up,\u201d McCartney said, acting it out. \u201cHe had jeans with a zip on the back and it connected with the battery! [Later] he showed me the zip mark [burned onto his body].\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney also took the time to poke fun at Lennon pretending to be poorer than he was. \u201cJohn always used to say \u2014 bless him \u2014 that he was a working-class hero,\u201d before he added the Lennon actually had some very \u201cposh\u201d relatives. \u201cRingo really was working class. George and I were kind of working class,\u201d McCartney said, recalling the time he and Lennon hitchhiked to Paris and one of Lennon\u2019s relatives gave him \u00a3100, which they spent very quickly.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe charming song, rooted in an acoustic guitar, is the literal story on McCartney and Harrison meeting on the bus and growing into hitchhiking friends.\u00a0\u201cIt was a good way to get to know you before we learned \u2018Twist & Shout,\u2019\u201d he sings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cWe Two\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe album contains many inventive twists and turns, but perhaps none more endearing than the creation of this stripped-down tune. As McCartney explained, when EMI got purchased by Thorn Electrical in 1979, the buyer wanted to purge all the equipment from Abbey Road (which EMI owned at the time). <\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney got a lot of the old studio equipment, including a Studer four-track tape machine that the Beatles recorded many of their classics on, the harmonium played on \u201cWe Can Work It Out\u201d and the spinet used on \u201cBecause.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tBecause the Studer could only record four tracks, the Beatles employed a technique called \u201cbouncing down,\u201d which would quickly mix two tracks down to one to free up tracks. McCartney said \u201cI and Ringo would be on bass and drums, which would take up two tracks and then we\u2019d bounce it down to one track. You had to get it right because you couldn\u2019t get it back.\u201d In England, Watt and McCartney wrote the sweet love song, \u201cWe Two,\u201d to record on the Studer and bounced down the tracks. \u201cWe\u2019re particularly proud of the snare drum\u201d on the record, McCartney said, of the song that ends with the sound of the track playing backwards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cCome Inside\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tOne of the album\u2019s pure rock tunes had the audience clapping along with McCartney giving little explanation. \u201cIt\u2019s basically a rocker. Not a lot I can say about it. Just play it,\u201d he said to Watt, who was calling up the songs on his laptop.\u00a0The driving tune includes the message, \u201cOpen up your mind\/open up your heart\/nothing else is keeping us apart.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThat sounds nice,\u201d McCartney said, concurring with the audience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cNever Know\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\t\u201cI was out in California. I\u2019ve always loved that Laurel Canyon vibe of the \u201870s. I was playing guitar trying to get that vibe. This is me trying to do that,\u201d McCartney said of the dense, heavy tune that then veers into a clarinet and then turns heavy again, with McCartney sounding a little like Lennon vocally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cHome To Us\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tBeatle 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\u2019t come together without some confusion, McCartney explained.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI saw Ringo and said I worked with this guy Andrew. Ringo came over to Andrew\u2019s studio and played a little bit of drums,\u201d he explained, but then things went slightly off the rails with misunderstandings. Starr thought he\u2019d given Watt enough to create a song, but was \u201ca bit pissed,\u201d McCartney says when it wasn\u2019t enough. McCartney really liked Starr\u2019s contribution and created a song around growing up in Liverpool.\u00a0 \u201cEven though where we lived was a little rough, it was home to us,\u201d McCartney said.<\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney 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\u2019t like the song. Eventually, they talked through everything, and Starr came back, added more drums and the two turned the song into true collaboration.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cRingo\u2019s never done a duet with one of the Beatles,\u201d McCartney said with a laugh. Not surprising, it\u2019s probably the most Beatle-esque track on the album, with tempo shifts, key changes and layered vocals with assists from the Pretenders\u2019 Chrissie Hynde and Texas\u2019 Sharleen Spiteri.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cLife Can Be Hard\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tA sweet love song written during the COVID lockdown which McCartney and Shevell spent with Shevell\u2019s niece, her husband and their new baby. \u201cIt was very nice. Every day, [Nancy] would ask if she could wake the baby,\u201d McCartney said, once again grabbing an acoustic guitar. As the crowd cheered, he laughed and said, \u201cI haven\u2019t done anything! Let me try again.\u201d The audience again cheered, leading McCartney to very good-naturedly mutter, \u201cpathetic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tHe demonstrated how he created a gentle melody and then would let the baby strum the strings, leading Shevell\u2019s niece and husband to declare that \u201cit\u2019s our song.\u201d\u00a0The genial, simple song is meant to inspire hope for the future.\u00a0\u201cI like that tune,\u201d he said after it played. \u201cIt has very good memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cStar\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tMcCartney was touring in Costa Rica and had a day off, which he planned to spend lathered up with sunscreen poolside. But it was pouring rain most of the day. So, McCartney decided to write a song instead and came up with \u201cStar,\u201d another uplifting song. \u201cThe first star on the night is always special when you see it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt always gives me a little hope.\u201d The sweet, melodic acoustic tune stresses \u201cI know my little world is still alright,\u201d upon seeing the first star pop out each night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cSalesman Saint\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tAnother song that is extremely autobiographical features McCartney writing about his father, James, the \u201csalesman\u201d in the story, and his mother Mary, the titular \u201csaint\u201d and a nurse\/midwife. The couple met during WWII and McCartney\u2019s dad was also a fireman who would put out fires caused from Germany\u2019s bombing raids.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe moved outside of Liverpool with our parents making sure me and my brother, Mike, did ok,\u201d McCartney said, praising the resilience that his parents\u2019 generation exuded during tough times. The track opens with a trumpet and builds from there into a heavy tune with time signature shifts and the message in the lyrics of \u201cThey couldn\u2019t take anymore, but they had to carry on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cMomma Gets By\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe closing track starts as a lush, dramatic piano ballad that expand to strings and an orchestra. \u201cSometimes, writing a song, you don\u2019t draw on memory, you\u2019re making it up,\u201d McCartney said, referencing writing \u201cLady Madonna.\u201d Same with \u201cMomma Gets By,\u201d which includes the opening lines, \u201cMomma gets by, while papa gets high.\u201d But even though papa is a wastrel, Momma loves him with \u201call her heart and soul,\u201d as they struggle to put food on the table. McCartney sings from the perspective of their young son, though he stressed again this was not about his parents.<\/p>\n
\n\tFollowing the conclusion, McCartney noted how no one theme dominates the album (though nostalgia is a pretty recurring them), and that he worried about lack of cohesion. \u201cThen you remember the Beatles albums. We didn\u2019t worry about that,\u201d he said with a little smile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/P115PYZ3-e1776413955372.jpg?w=1024″] 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\u2019s newly christened Diamond Dust studio in Sherman Oaks, McCartney and Watt described the making of the album track by track before playing each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1887235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tThe first single, released a few weeks ago, is a gentle sentimental nod to his past. \u201cIt\u2019s my memories of Liverpool,\u201d McCartney said. \u201cDungeon Lane was near where I lived, me and George [Harrison]. I would get the bus and the next stop, he\u2019d get on. We\u2019d talk about guitars and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll. It was all coming in. It was all arriving.\u201d\u00a0McCartney also talked about going down to the Mersey shore. \u201cI was a big bird watcher,\u201d he said, drawing a laugh as the audience assumed he meant girl watcher, using the British slang. \u201cNo,\u201d McCartney said, indicated he really meant the winged variety. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\u00a0\u201cRipples In a Pond\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tA very upbeat song with McCartney\u2019s vocals pushed front and center and with a bouncy pop production before delving into a spacy, inventive bridge. Written for and about Shevell, McCartney changed the song from third person, \u201cshe\u201d to second person, \u201cyou,\u201d to personalize it more for his wife. During the playback, McCartney even looked straight at his wife of 15 years as he mouthed lyrics including, \u201cI love you more than I ever did before.\u201d McCartney recorded the song in England and then sent it Watt to make it bouncier and dancier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cMountaintop\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tProduced with tape loops, the spacy song is from the perspective of a young girl tripping out with her friends at a music festival. McCartney\u2019s voice is almost unrecognizable in the dreamy song that sounds like a cousin to \u201cLucy in the Sky With Diamonds.\u201d After singing about how everyone\u2019s tripping, McCartney adds, \u201ceveryone\u2019s flipping\/need to get a grip and get away, or do you want to stay.\u201d The adventurous tune, which bursts into psychedelic warp speed at one point with pounding guitars and drums, would sound even more experimental if it weren\u2019t created by the person who, with his friends 70 years ago, completely invented a new language for rock \u2018n\u2019 roll.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cDown South\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tPerhaps the most nostalgic song on the album prompted a revealing story about how McCartney used to hitchhike with both Harrison and John Lennon, often by grabbing a ride with a lorry (truck) driver and heading to Wales or southern England around Exeter. He recalled how once he and Harrison were in Wales and had hopped a ride \u201cin a milk truck. George in the middle. He was sitting right on the battery. George jumped up,\u201d McCartney said, acting it out. \u201cHe had jeans with a zip on the back and it connected with the battery! [Later] he showed me the zip mark [burned onto his body].\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney also took the time to poke fun at Lennon pretending to be poorer than he was. \u201cJohn always used to say \u2014 bless him \u2014 that he was a working-class hero,\u201d before he added the Lennon actually had some very \u201cposh\u201d relatives. \u201cRingo really was working class. George and I were kind of working class,\u201d McCartney said, recalling the time he and Lennon hitchhiked to Paris and one of Lennon\u2019s relatives gave him \u00a3100, which they spent very quickly.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe charming song, rooted in an acoustic guitar, is the literal story on McCartney and Harrison meeting on the bus and growing into hitchhiking friends.\u00a0\u201cIt was a good way to get to know you before we learned \u2018Twist & Shout,\u2019\u201d he sings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cWe Two\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe album contains many inventive twists and turns, but perhaps none more endearing than the creation of this stripped-down tune. As McCartney explained, when EMI got purchased by Thorn Electrical in 1979, the buyer wanted to purge all the equipment from Abbey Road (which EMI owned at the time). <\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney got a lot of the old studio equipment, including a Studer four-track tape machine that the Beatles recorded many of their classics on, the harmonium played on \u201cWe Can Work It Out\u201d and the spinet used on \u201cBecause.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tBecause the Studer could only record four tracks, the Beatles employed a technique called \u201cbouncing down,\u201d which would quickly mix two tracks down to one to free up tracks. McCartney said \u201cI and Ringo would be on bass and drums, which would take up two tracks and then we\u2019d bounce it down to one track. You had to get it right because you couldn\u2019t get it back.\u201d In England, Watt and McCartney wrote the sweet love song, \u201cWe Two,\u201d to record on the Studer and bounced down the tracks. \u201cWe\u2019re particularly proud of the snare drum\u201d on the record, McCartney said, of the song that ends with the sound of the track playing backwards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cCome Inside\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tOne of the album\u2019s pure rock tunes had the audience clapping along with McCartney giving little explanation. \u201cIt\u2019s basically a rocker. Not a lot I can say about it. Just play it,\u201d he said to Watt, who was calling up the songs on his laptop.\u00a0The driving tune includes the message, \u201cOpen up your mind\/open up your heart\/nothing else is keeping us apart.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThat sounds nice,\u201d McCartney said, concurring with the audience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cNever Know\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\t\u201cI was out in California. I\u2019ve always loved that Laurel Canyon vibe of the \u201870s. I was playing guitar trying to get that vibe. This is me trying to do that,\u201d McCartney said of the dense, heavy tune that then veers into a clarinet and then turns heavy again, with McCartney sounding a little like Lennon vocally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cHome To Us\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tBeatle 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\u2019t come together without some confusion, McCartney explained.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI saw Ringo and said I worked with this guy Andrew. Ringo came over to Andrew\u2019s studio and played a little bit of drums,\u201d he explained, but then things went slightly off the rails with misunderstandings. Starr thought he\u2019d given Watt enough to create a song, but was \u201ca bit pissed,\u201d McCartney says when it wasn\u2019t enough. McCartney really liked Starr\u2019s contribution and created a song around growing up in Liverpool.\u00a0 \u201cEven though where we lived was a little rough, it was home to us,\u201d McCartney said.<\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney 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\u2019t like the song. Eventually, they talked through everything, and Starr came back, added more drums and the two turned the song into true collaboration.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cRingo\u2019s never done a duet with one of the Beatles,\u201d McCartney said with a laugh. Not surprising, it\u2019s probably the most Beatle-esque track on the album, with tempo shifts, key changes and layered vocals with assists from the Pretenders\u2019 Chrissie Hynde and Texas\u2019 Sharleen Spiteri.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cLife Can Be Hard\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tA sweet love song written during the COVID lockdown which McCartney and Shevell spent with Shevell\u2019s niece, her husband and their new baby. \u201cIt was very nice. Every day, [Nancy] would ask if she could wake the baby,\u201d McCartney said, once again grabbing an acoustic guitar. As the crowd cheered, he laughed and said, \u201cI haven\u2019t done anything! Let me try again.\u201d The audience again cheered, leading McCartney to very good-naturedly mutter, \u201cpathetic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tHe demonstrated how he created a gentle melody and then would let the baby strum the strings, leading Shevell\u2019s niece and husband to declare that \u201cit\u2019s our song.\u201d\u00a0The genial, simple song is meant to inspire hope for the future.\u00a0\u201cI like that tune,\u201d he said after it played. \u201cIt has very good memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cStar\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tMcCartney was touring in Costa Rica and had a day off, which he planned to spend lathered up with sunscreen poolside. But it was pouring rain most of the day. So, McCartney decided to write a song instead and came up with \u201cStar,\u201d another uplifting song. \u201cThe first star on the night is always special when you see it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt always gives me a little hope.\u201d The sweet, melodic acoustic tune stresses \u201cI know my little world is still alright,\u201d upon seeing the first star pop out each night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cSalesman Saint\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tAnother song that is extremely autobiographical features McCartney writing about his father, James, the \u201csalesman\u201d in the story, and his mother Mary, the titular \u201csaint\u201d and a nurse\/midwife. The couple met during WWII and McCartney\u2019s dad was also a fireman who would put out fires caused from Germany\u2019s bombing raids.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe moved outside of Liverpool with our parents making sure me and my brother, Mike, did ok,\u201d McCartney said, praising the resilience that his parents\u2019 generation exuded during tough times. The track opens with a trumpet and builds from there into a heavy tune with time signature shifts and the message in the lyrics of \u201cThey couldn\u2019t take anymore, but they had to carry on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cMomma Gets By\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe closing track starts as a lush, dramatic piano ballad that expand to strings and an orchestra. \u201cSometimes, writing a song, you don\u2019t draw on memory, you\u2019re making it up,\u201d McCartney said, referencing writing \u201cLady Madonna.\u201d Same with \u201cMomma Gets By,\u201d which includes the opening lines, \u201cMomma gets by, while papa gets high.\u201d But even though papa is a wastrel, Momma loves him with \u201call her heart and soul,\u201d as they struggle to put food on the table. McCartney sings from the perspective of their young son, though he stressed again this was not about his parents.<\/p>\n
\n\tFollowing the conclusion, McCartney noted how no one theme dominates the album (though nostalgia is a pretty recurring them), and that he worried about lack of cohesion. \u201cThen you remember the Beatles albums. We didn\u2019t worry about that,\u201d he said with a little smile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/P115PYZ3-e1776413955372.jpg?w=1024″] 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\u2019s newly christened Diamond Dust studio in Sherman Oaks, McCartney and Watt described the making of the album track by track before playing each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1887235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tA very upbeat song with McCartney\u2019s vocals pushed front and center and with a bouncy pop production before delving into a spacy, inventive bridge. Written for and about Shevell, McCartney changed the song from third person, \u201cshe\u201d to second person, \u201cyou,\u201d to personalize it more for his wife. During the playback, McCartney even looked straight at his wife of 15 years as he mouthed lyrics including, \u201cI love you more than I ever did before.\u201d McCartney recorded the song in England and then sent it Watt to make it bouncier and dancier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cMountaintop\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tProduced with tape loops, the spacy song is from the perspective of a young girl tripping out with her friends at a music festival. McCartney\u2019s voice is almost unrecognizable in the dreamy song that sounds like a cousin to \u201cLucy in the Sky With Diamonds.\u201d After singing about how everyone\u2019s tripping, McCartney adds, \u201ceveryone\u2019s flipping\/need to get a grip and get away, or do you want to stay.\u201d The adventurous tune, which bursts into psychedelic warp speed at one point with pounding guitars and drums, would sound even more experimental if it weren\u2019t created by the person who, with his friends 70 years ago, completely invented a new language for rock \u2018n\u2019 roll.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cDown South\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tPerhaps the most nostalgic song on the album prompted a revealing story about how McCartney used to hitchhike with both Harrison and John Lennon, often by grabbing a ride with a lorry (truck) driver and heading to Wales or southern England around Exeter. He recalled how once he and Harrison were in Wales and had hopped a ride \u201cin a milk truck. George in the middle. He was sitting right on the battery. George jumped up,\u201d McCartney said, acting it out. \u201cHe had jeans with a zip on the back and it connected with the battery! [Later] he showed me the zip mark [burned onto his body].\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney also took the time to poke fun at Lennon pretending to be poorer than he was. \u201cJohn always used to say \u2014 bless him \u2014 that he was a working-class hero,\u201d before he added the Lennon actually had some very \u201cposh\u201d relatives. \u201cRingo really was working class. George and I were kind of working class,\u201d McCartney said, recalling the time he and Lennon hitchhiked to Paris and one of Lennon\u2019s relatives gave him \u00a3100, which they spent very quickly.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe charming song, rooted in an acoustic guitar, is the literal story on McCartney and Harrison meeting on the bus and growing into hitchhiking friends.\u00a0\u201cIt was a good way to get to know you before we learned \u2018Twist & Shout,\u2019\u201d he sings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cWe Two\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe album contains many inventive twists and turns, but perhaps none more endearing than the creation of this stripped-down tune. As McCartney explained, when EMI got purchased by Thorn Electrical in 1979, the buyer wanted to purge all the equipment from Abbey Road (which EMI owned at the time). <\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney got a lot of the old studio equipment, including a Studer four-track tape machine that the Beatles recorded many of their classics on, the harmonium played on \u201cWe Can Work It Out\u201d and the spinet used on \u201cBecause.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tBecause the Studer could only record four tracks, the Beatles employed a technique called \u201cbouncing down,\u201d which would quickly mix two tracks down to one to free up tracks. McCartney said \u201cI and Ringo would be on bass and drums, which would take up two tracks and then we\u2019d bounce it down to one track. You had to get it right because you couldn\u2019t get it back.\u201d In England, Watt and McCartney wrote the sweet love song, \u201cWe Two,\u201d to record on the Studer and bounced down the tracks. \u201cWe\u2019re particularly proud of the snare drum\u201d on the record, McCartney said, of the song that ends with the sound of the track playing backwards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cCome Inside\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tOne of the album\u2019s pure rock tunes had the audience clapping along with McCartney giving little explanation. \u201cIt\u2019s basically a rocker. Not a lot I can say about it. Just play it,\u201d he said to Watt, who was calling up the songs on his laptop.\u00a0The driving tune includes the message, \u201cOpen up your mind\/open up your heart\/nothing else is keeping us apart.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThat sounds nice,\u201d McCartney said, concurring with the audience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cNever Know\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\t\u201cI was out in California. I\u2019ve always loved that Laurel Canyon vibe of the \u201870s. I was playing guitar trying to get that vibe. This is me trying to do that,\u201d McCartney said of the dense, heavy tune that then veers into a clarinet and then turns heavy again, with McCartney sounding a little like Lennon vocally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cHome To Us\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tBeatle 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\u2019t come together without some confusion, McCartney explained.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI saw Ringo and said I worked with this guy Andrew. Ringo came over to Andrew\u2019s studio and played a little bit of drums,\u201d he explained, but then things went slightly off the rails with misunderstandings. Starr thought he\u2019d given Watt enough to create a song, but was \u201ca bit pissed,\u201d McCartney says when it wasn\u2019t enough. McCartney really liked Starr\u2019s contribution and created a song around growing up in Liverpool.\u00a0 \u201cEven though where we lived was a little rough, it was home to us,\u201d McCartney said.<\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney 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\u2019t like the song. Eventually, they talked through everything, and Starr came back, added more drums and the two turned the song into true collaboration.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cRingo\u2019s never done a duet with one of the Beatles,\u201d McCartney said with a laugh. Not surprising, it\u2019s probably the most Beatle-esque track on the album, with tempo shifts, key changes and layered vocals with assists from the Pretenders\u2019 Chrissie Hynde and Texas\u2019 Sharleen Spiteri.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cLife Can Be Hard\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tA sweet love song written during the COVID lockdown which McCartney and Shevell spent with Shevell\u2019s niece, her husband and their new baby. \u201cIt was very nice. Every day, [Nancy] would ask if she could wake the baby,\u201d McCartney said, once again grabbing an acoustic guitar. As the crowd cheered, he laughed and said, \u201cI haven\u2019t done anything! Let me try again.\u201d The audience again cheered, leading McCartney to very good-naturedly mutter, \u201cpathetic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tHe demonstrated how he created a gentle melody and then would let the baby strum the strings, leading Shevell\u2019s niece and husband to declare that \u201cit\u2019s our song.\u201d\u00a0The genial, simple song is meant to inspire hope for the future.\u00a0\u201cI like that tune,\u201d he said after it played. \u201cIt has very good memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cStar\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tMcCartney was touring in Costa Rica and had a day off, which he planned to spend lathered up with sunscreen poolside. But it was pouring rain most of the day. So, McCartney decided to write a song instead and came up with \u201cStar,\u201d another uplifting song. \u201cThe first star on the night is always special when you see it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt always gives me a little hope.\u201d The sweet, melodic acoustic tune stresses \u201cI know my little world is still alright,\u201d upon seeing the first star pop out each night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cSalesman Saint\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tAnother song that is extremely autobiographical features McCartney writing about his father, James, the \u201csalesman\u201d in the story, and his mother Mary, the titular \u201csaint\u201d and a nurse\/midwife. The couple met during WWII and McCartney\u2019s dad was also a fireman who would put out fires caused from Germany\u2019s bombing raids.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe moved outside of Liverpool with our parents making sure me and my brother, Mike, did ok,\u201d McCartney said, praising the resilience that his parents\u2019 generation exuded during tough times. The track opens with a trumpet and builds from there into a heavy tune with time signature shifts and the message in the lyrics of \u201cThey couldn\u2019t take anymore, but they had to carry on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cMomma Gets By\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe closing track starts as a lush, dramatic piano ballad that expand to strings and an orchestra. \u201cSometimes, writing a song, you don\u2019t draw on memory, you\u2019re making it up,\u201d McCartney said, referencing writing \u201cLady Madonna.\u201d Same with \u201cMomma Gets By,\u201d which includes the opening lines, \u201cMomma gets by, while papa gets high.\u201d But even though papa is a wastrel, Momma loves him with \u201call her heart and soul,\u201d as they struggle to put food on the table. McCartney sings from the perspective of their young son, though he stressed again this was not about his parents.<\/p>\n
\n\tFollowing the conclusion, McCartney noted how no one theme dominates the album (though nostalgia is a pretty recurring them), and that he worried about lack of cohesion. \u201cThen you remember the Beatles albums. We didn\u2019t worry about that,\u201d he said with a little smile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/P115PYZ3-e1776413955372.jpg?w=1024″] 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\u2019s newly christened Diamond Dust studio in Sherman Oaks, McCartney and Watt described the making of the album track by track before playing each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1887235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tProduced with tape loops, the spacy song is from the perspective of a young girl tripping out with her friends at a music festival. McCartney\u2019s voice is almost unrecognizable in the dreamy song that sounds like a cousin to \u201cLucy in the Sky With Diamonds.\u201d After singing about how everyone\u2019s tripping, McCartney adds, \u201ceveryone\u2019s flipping\/need to get a grip and get away, or do you want to stay.\u201d The adventurous tune, which bursts into psychedelic warp speed at one point with pounding guitars and drums, would sound even more experimental if it weren\u2019t created by the person who, with his friends 70 years ago, completely invented a new language for rock \u2018n\u2019 roll.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cDown South\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tPerhaps the most nostalgic song on the album prompted a revealing story about how McCartney used to hitchhike with both Harrison and John Lennon, often by grabbing a ride with a lorry (truck) driver and heading to Wales or southern England around Exeter. He recalled how once he and Harrison were in Wales and had hopped a ride \u201cin a milk truck. George in the middle. He was sitting right on the battery. George jumped up,\u201d McCartney said, acting it out. \u201cHe had jeans with a zip on the back and it connected with the battery! [Later] he showed me the zip mark [burned onto his body].\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney also took the time to poke fun at Lennon pretending to be poorer than he was. \u201cJohn always used to say \u2014 bless him \u2014 that he was a working-class hero,\u201d before he added the Lennon actually had some very \u201cposh\u201d relatives. \u201cRingo really was working class. George and I were kind of working class,\u201d McCartney said, recalling the time he and Lennon hitchhiked to Paris and one of Lennon\u2019s relatives gave him \u00a3100, which they spent very quickly.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe charming song, rooted in an acoustic guitar, is the literal story on McCartney and Harrison meeting on the bus and growing into hitchhiking friends.\u00a0\u201cIt was a good way to get to know you before we learned \u2018Twist & Shout,\u2019\u201d he sings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cWe Two\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe album contains many inventive twists and turns, but perhaps none more endearing than the creation of this stripped-down tune. As McCartney explained, when EMI got purchased by Thorn Electrical in 1979, the buyer wanted to purge all the equipment from Abbey Road (which EMI owned at the time). <\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney got a lot of the old studio equipment, including a Studer four-track tape machine that the Beatles recorded many of their classics on, the harmonium played on \u201cWe Can Work It Out\u201d and the spinet used on \u201cBecause.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tBecause the Studer could only record four tracks, the Beatles employed a technique called \u201cbouncing down,\u201d which would quickly mix two tracks down to one to free up tracks. McCartney said \u201cI and Ringo would be on bass and drums, which would take up two tracks and then we\u2019d bounce it down to one track. You had to get it right because you couldn\u2019t get it back.\u201d In England, Watt and McCartney wrote the sweet love song, \u201cWe Two,\u201d to record on the Studer and bounced down the tracks. \u201cWe\u2019re particularly proud of the snare drum\u201d on the record, McCartney said, of the song that ends with the sound of the track playing backwards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cCome Inside\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tOne of the album\u2019s pure rock tunes had the audience clapping along with McCartney giving little explanation. \u201cIt\u2019s basically a rocker. Not a lot I can say about it. Just play it,\u201d he said to Watt, who was calling up the songs on his laptop.\u00a0The driving tune includes the message, \u201cOpen up your mind\/open up your heart\/nothing else is keeping us apart.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThat sounds nice,\u201d McCartney said, concurring with the audience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cNever Know\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\t\u201cI was out in California. I\u2019ve always loved that Laurel Canyon vibe of the \u201870s. I was playing guitar trying to get that vibe. This is me trying to do that,\u201d McCartney said of the dense, heavy tune that then veers into a clarinet and then turns heavy again, with McCartney sounding a little like Lennon vocally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cHome To Us\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tBeatle 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\u2019t come together without some confusion, McCartney explained.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI saw Ringo and said I worked with this guy Andrew. Ringo came over to Andrew\u2019s studio and played a little bit of drums,\u201d he explained, but then things went slightly off the rails with misunderstandings. Starr thought he\u2019d given Watt enough to create a song, but was \u201ca bit pissed,\u201d McCartney says when it wasn\u2019t enough. McCartney really liked Starr\u2019s contribution and created a song around growing up in Liverpool.\u00a0 \u201cEven though where we lived was a little rough, it was home to us,\u201d McCartney said.<\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney 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\u2019t like the song. Eventually, they talked through everything, and Starr came back, added more drums and the two turned the song into true collaboration.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cRingo\u2019s never done a duet with one of the Beatles,\u201d McCartney said with a laugh. Not surprising, it\u2019s probably the most Beatle-esque track on the album, with tempo shifts, key changes and layered vocals with assists from the Pretenders\u2019 Chrissie Hynde and Texas\u2019 Sharleen Spiteri.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cLife Can Be Hard\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tA sweet love song written during the COVID lockdown which McCartney and Shevell spent with Shevell\u2019s niece, her husband and their new baby. \u201cIt was very nice. Every day, [Nancy] would ask if she could wake the baby,\u201d McCartney said, once again grabbing an acoustic guitar. As the crowd cheered, he laughed and said, \u201cI haven\u2019t done anything! Let me try again.\u201d The audience again cheered, leading McCartney to very good-naturedly mutter, \u201cpathetic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tHe demonstrated how he created a gentle melody and then would let the baby strum the strings, leading Shevell\u2019s niece and husband to declare that \u201cit\u2019s our song.\u201d\u00a0The genial, simple song is meant to inspire hope for the future.\u00a0\u201cI like that tune,\u201d he said after it played. \u201cIt has very good memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cStar\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tMcCartney was touring in Costa Rica and had a day off, which he planned to spend lathered up with sunscreen poolside. But it was pouring rain most of the day. So, McCartney decided to write a song instead and came up with \u201cStar,\u201d another uplifting song. \u201cThe first star on the night is always special when you see it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt always gives me a little hope.\u201d The sweet, melodic acoustic tune stresses \u201cI know my little world is still alright,\u201d upon seeing the first star pop out each night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cSalesman Saint\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tAnother song that is extremely autobiographical features McCartney writing about his father, James, the \u201csalesman\u201d in the story, and his mother Mary, the titular \u201csaint\u201d and a nurse\/midwife. The couple met during WWII and McCartney\u2019s dad was also a fireman who would put out fires caused from Germany\u2019s bombing raids.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe moved outside of Liverpool with our parents making sure me and my brother, Mike, did ok,\u201d McCartney said, praising the resilience that his parents\u2019 generation exuded during tough times. The track opens with a trumpet and builds from there into a heavy tune with time signature shifts and the message in the lyrics of \u201cThey couldn\u2019t take anymore, but they had to carry on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cMomma Gets By\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe closing track starts as a lush, dramatic piano ballad that expand to strings and an orchestra. \u201cSometimes, writing a song, you don\u2019t draw on memory, you\u2019re making it up,\u201d McCartney said, referencing writing \u201cLady Madonna.\u201d Same with \u201cMomma Gets By,\u201d which includes the opening lines, \u201cMomma gets by, while papa gets high.\u201d But even though papa is a wastrel, Momma loves him with \u201call her heart and soul,\u201d as they struggle to put food on the table. McCartney sings from the perspective of their young son, though he stressed again this was not about his parents.<\/p>\n
\n\tFollowing the conclusion, McCartney noted how no one theme dominates the album (though nostalgia is a pretty recurring them), and that he worried about lack of cohesion. \u201cThen you remember the Beatles albums. We didn\u2019t worry about that,\u201d he said with a little smile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/P115PYZ3-e1776413955372.jpg?w=1024″] 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\u2019s newly christened Diamond Dust studio in Sherman Oaks, McCartney and Watt described the making of the album track by track before playing each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1887235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tPerhaps the most nostalgic song on the album prompted a revealing story about how McCartney used to hitchhike with both Harrison and John Lennon, often by grabbing a ride with a lorry (truck) driver and heading to Wales or southern England around Exeter. He recalled how once he and Harrison were in Wales and had hopped a ride \u201cin a milk truck. George in the middle. He was sitting right on the battery. George jumped up,\u201d McCartney said, acting it out. \u201cHe had jeans with a zip on the back and it connected with the battery! [Later] he showed me the zip mark [burned onto his body].\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney also took the time to poke fun at Lennon pretending to be poorer than he was. \u201cJohn always used to say \u2014 bless him \u2014 that he was a working-class hero,\u201d before he added the Lennon actually had some very \u201cposh\u201d relatives. \u201cRingo really was working class. George and I were kind of working class,\u201d McCartney said, recalling the time he and Lennon hitchhiked to Paris and one of Lennon\u2019s relatives gave him \u00a3100, which they spent very quickly.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe charming song, rooted in an acoustic guitar, is the literal story on McCartney and Harrison meeting on the bus and growing into hitchhiking friends.\u00a0\u201cIt was a good way to get to know you before we learned \u2018Twist & Shout,\u2019\u201d he sings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cWe Two\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe album contains many inventive twists and turns, but perhaps none more endearing than the creation of this stripped-down tune. As McCartney explained, when EMI got purchased by Thorn Electrical in 1979, the buyer wanted to purge all the equipment from Abbey Road (which EMI owned at the time). <\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney got a lot of the old studio equipment, including a Studer four-track tape machine that the Beatles recorded many of their classics on, the harmonium played on \u201cWe Can Work It Out\u201d and the spinet used on \u201cBecause.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tBecause the Studer could only record four tracks, the Beatles employed a technique called \u201cbouncing down,\u201d which would quickly mix two tracks down to one to free up tracks. McCartney said \u201cI and Ringo would be on bass and drums, which would take up two tracks and then we\u2019d bounce it down to one track. You had to get it right because you couldn\u2019t get it back.\u201d In England, Watt and McCartney wrote the sweet love song, \u201cWe Two,\u201d to record on the Studer and bounced down the tracks. \u201cWe\u2019re particularly proud of the snare drum\u201d on the record, McCartney said, of the song that ends with the sound of the track playing backwards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cCome Inside\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tOne of the album\u2019s pure rock tunes had the audience clapping along with McCartney giving little explanation. \u201cIt\u2019s basically a rocker. Not a lot I can say about it. Just play it,\u201d he said to Watt, who was calling up the songs on his laptop.\u00a0The driving tune includes the message, \u201cOpen up your mind\/open up your heart\/nothing else is keeping us apart.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThat sounds nice,\u201d McCartney said, concurring with the audience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cNever Know\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\t\u201cI was out in California. I\u2019ve always loved that Laurel Canyon vibe of the \u201870s. I was playing guitar trying to get that vibe. This is me trying to do that,\u201d McCartney said of the dense, heavy tune that then veers into a clarinet and then turns heavy again, with McCartney sounding a little like Lennon vocally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cHome To Us\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tBeatle 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\u2019t come together without some confusion, McCartney explained.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI saw Ringo and said I worked with this guy Andrew. Ringo came over to Andrew\u2019s studio and played a little bit of drums,\u201d he explained, but then things went slightly off the rails with misunderstandings. Starr thought he\u2019d given Watt enough to create a song, but was \u201ca bit pissed,\u201d McCartney says when it wasn\u2019t enough. McCartney really liked Starr\u2019s contribution and created a song around growing up in Liverpool.\u00a0 \u201cEven though where we lived was a little rough, it was home to us,\u201d McCartney said.<\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney 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\u2019t like the song. Eventually, they talked through everything, and Starr came back, added more drums and the two turned the song into true collaboration.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cRingo\u2019s never done a duet with one of the Beatles,\u201d McCartney said with a laugh. Not surprising, it\u2019s probably the most Beatle-esque track on the album, with tempo shifts, key changes and layered vocals with assists from the Pretenders\u2019 Chrissie Hynde and Texas\u2019 Sharleen Spiteri.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cLife Can Be Hard\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tA sweet love song written during the COVID lockdown which McCartney and Shevell spent with Shevell\u2019s niece, her husband and their new baby. \u201cIt was very nice. Every day, [Nancy] would ask if she could wake the baby,\u201d McCartney said, once again grabbing an acoustic guitar. As the crowd cheered, he laughed and said, \u201cI haven\u2019t done anything! Let me try again.\u201d The audience again cheered, leading McCartney to very good-naturedly mutter, \u201cpathetic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tHe demonstrated how he created a gentle melody and then would let the baby strum the strings, leading Shevell\u2019s niece and husband to declare that \u201cit\u2019s our song.\u201d\u00a0The genial, simple song is meant to inspire hope for the future.\u00a0\u201cI like that tune,\u201d he said after it played. \u201cIt has very good memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cStar\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tMcCartney was touring in Costa Rica and had a day off, which he planned to spend lathered up with sunscreen poolside. But it was pouring rain most of the day. So, McCartney decided to write a song instead and came up with \u201cStar,\u201d another uplifting song. \u201cThe first star on the night is always special when you see it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt always gives me a little hope.\u201d The sweet, melodic acoustic tune stresses \u201cI know my little world is still alright,\u201d upon seeing the first star pop out each night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cSalesman Saint\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tAnother song that is extremely autobiographical features McCartney writing about his father, James, the \u201csalesman\u201d in the story, and his mother Mary, the titular \u201csaint\u201d and a nurse\/midwife. The couple met during WWII and McCartney\u2019s dad was also a fireman who would put out fires caused from Germany\u2019s bombing raids.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe moved outside of Liverpool with our parents making sure me and my brother, Mike, did ok,\u201d McCartney said, praising the resilience that his parents\u2019 generation exuded during tough times. The track opens with a trumpet and builds from there into a heavy tune with time signature shifts and the message in the lyrics of \u201cThey couldn\u2019t take anymore, but they had to carry on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cMomma Gets By\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe closing track starts as a lush, dramatic piano ballad that expand to strings and an orchestra. \u201cSometimes, writing a song, you don\u2019t draw on memory, you\u2019re making it up,\u201d McCartney said, referencing writing \u201cLady Madonna.\u201d Same with \u201cMomma Gets By,\u201d which includes the opening lines, \u201cMomma gets by, while papa gets high.\u201d But even though papa is a wastrel, Momma loves him with \u201call her heart and soul,\u201d as they struggle to put food on the table. McCartney sings from the perspective of their young son, though he stressed again this was not about his parents.<\/p>\n
\n\tFollowing the conclusion, McCartney noted how no one theme dominates the album (though nostalgia is a pretty recurring them), and that he worried about lack of cohesion. \u201cThen you remember the Beatles albums. We didn\u2019t worry about that,\u201d he said with a little smile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/P115PYZ3-e1776413955372.jpg?w=1024″] 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\u2019s newly christened Diamond Dust studio in Sherman Oaks, McCartney and Watt described the making of the album track by track before playing each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1887235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tThe album contains many inventive twists and turns, but perhaps none more endearing than the creation of this stripped-down tune. As McCartney explained, when EMI got purchased by Thorn Electrical in 1979, the buyer wanted to purge all the equipment from Abbey Road (which EMI owned at the time). <\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney got a lot of the old studio equipment, including a Studer four-track tape machine that the Beatles recorded many of their classics on, the harmonium played on \u201cWe Can Work It Out\u201d and the spinet used on \u201cBecause.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tBecause the Studer could only record four tracks, the Beatles employed a technique called \u201cbouncing down,\u201d which would quickly mix two tracks down to one to free up tracks. McCartney said \u201cI and Ringo would be on bass and drums, which would take up two tracks and then we\u2019d bounce it down to one track. You had to get it right because you couldn\u2019t get it back.\u201d In England, Watt and McCartney wrote the sweet love song, \u201cWe Two,\u201d to record on the Studer and bounced down the tracks. \u201cWe\u2019re particularly proud of the snare drum\u201d on the record, McCartney said, of the song that ends with the sound of the track playing backwards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cCome Inside\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tOne of the album\u2019s pure rock tunes had the audience clapping along with McCartney giving little explanation. \u201cIt\u2019s basically a rocker. Not a lot I can say about it. Just play it,\u201d he said to Watt, who was calling up the songs on his laptop.\u00a0The driving tune includes the message, \u201cOpen up your mind\/open up your heart\/nothing else is keeping us apart.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThat sounds nice,\u201d McCartney said, concurring with the audience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cNever Know\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\t\u201cI was out in California. I\u2019ve always loved that Laurel Canyon vibe of the \u201870s. I was playing guitar trying to get that vibe. This is me trying to do that,\u201d McCartney said of the dense, heavy tune that then veers into a clarinet and then turns heavy again, with McCartney sounding a little like Lennon vocally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cHome To Us\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tBeatle 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\u2019t come together without some confusion, McCartney explained.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI saw Ringo and said I worked with this guy Andrew. Ringo came over to Andrew\u2019s studio and played a little bit of drums,\u201d he explained, but then things went slightly off the rails with misunderstandings. Starr thought he\u2019d given Watt enough to create a song, but was \u201ca bit pissed,\u201d McCartney says when it wasn\u2019t enough. McCartney really liked Starr\u2019s contribution and created a song around growing up in Liverpool.\u00a0 \u201cEven though where we lived was a little rough, it was home to us,\u201d McCartney said.<\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney 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\u2019t like the song. Eventually, they talked through everything, and Starr came back, added more drums and the two turned the song into true collaboration.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cRingo\u2019s never done a duet with one of the Beatles,\u201d McCartney said with a laugh. Not surprising, it\u2019s probably the most Beatle-esque track on the album, with tempo shifts, key changes and layered vocals with assists from the Pretenders\u2019 Chrissie Hynde and Texas\u2019 Sharleen Spiteri.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cLife Can Be Hard\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tA sweet love song written during the COVID lockdown which McCartney and Shevell spent with Shevell\u2019s niece, her husband and their new baby. \u201cIt was very nice. Every day, [Nancy] would ask if she could wake the baby,\u201d McCartney said, once again grabbing an acoustic guitar. As the crowd cheered, he laughed and said, \u201cI haven\u2019t done anything! Let me try again.\u201d The audience again cheered, leading McCartney to very good-naturedly mutter, \u201cpathetic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tHe demonstrated how he created a gentle melody and then would let the baby strum the strings, leading Shevell\u2019s niece and husband to declare that \u201cit\u2019s our song.\u201d\u00a0The genial, simple song is meant to inspire hope for the future.\u00a0\u201cI like that tune,\u201d he said after it played. \u201cIt has very good memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cStar\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tMcCartney was touring in Costa Rica and had a day off, which he planned to spend lathered up with sunscreen poolside. But it was pouring rain most of the day. So, McCartney decided to write a song instead and came up with \u201cStar,\u201d another uplifting song. \u201cThe first star on the night is always special when you see it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt always gives me a little hope.\u201d The sweet, melodic acoustic tune stresses \u201cI know my little world is still alright,\u201d upon seeing the first star pop out each night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cSalesman Saint\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tAnother song that is extremely autobiographical features McCartney writing about his father, James, the \u201csalesman\u201d in the story, and his mother Mary, the titular \u201csaint\u201d and a nurse\/midwife. The couple met during WWII and McCartney\u2019s dad was also a fireman who would put out fires caused from Germany\u2019s bombing raids.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe moved outside of Liverpool with our parents making sure me and my brother, Mike, did ok,\u201d McCartney said, praising the resilience that his parents\u2019 generation exuded during tough times. The track opens with a trumpet and builds from there into a heavy tune with time signature shifts and the message in the lyrics of \u201cThey couldn\u2019t take anymore, but they had to carry on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cMomma Gets By\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe closing track starts as a lush, dramatic piano ballad that expand to strings and an orchestra. \u201cSometimes, writing a song, you don\u2019t draw on memory, you\u2019re making it up,\u201d McCartney said, referencing writing \u201cLady Madonna.\u201d Same with \u201cMomma Gets By,\u201d which includes the opening lines, \u201cMomma gets by, while papa gets high.\u201d But even though papa is a wastrel, Momma loves him with \u201call her heart and soul,\u201d as they struggle to put food on the table. McCartney sings from the perspective of their young son, though he stressed again this was not about his parents.<\/p>\n
\n\tFollowing the conclusion, McCartney noted how no one theme dominates the album (though nostalgia is a pretty recurring them), and that he worried about lack of cohesion. \u201cThen you remember the Beatles albums. We didn\u2019t worry about that,\u201d he said with a little smile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/P115PYZ3-e1776413955372.jpg?w=1024″] 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\u2019s newly christened Diamond Dust studio in Sherman Oaks, McCartney and Watt described the making of the album track by track before playing each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1887235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tOne of the album\u2019s pure rock tunes had the audience clapping along with McCartney giving little explanation. \u201cIt\u2019s basically a rocker. Not a lot I can say about it. Just play it,\u201d he said to Watt, who was calling up the songs on his laptop.\u00a0The driving tune includes the message, \u201cOpen up your mind\/open up your heart\/nothing else is keeping us apart.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThat sounds nice,\u201d McCartney said, concurring with the audience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cNever Know\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\t\u201cI was out in California. I\u2019ve always loved that Laurel Canyon vibe of the \u201870s. I was playing guitar trying to get that vibe. This is me trying to do that,\u201d McCartney said of the dense, heavy tune that then veers into a clarinet and then turns heavy again, with McCartney sounding a little like Lennon vocally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cHome To Us\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tBeatle 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\u2019t come together without some confusion, McCartney explained.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI saw Ringo and said I worked with this guy Andrew. Ringo came over to Andrew\u2019s studio and played a little bit of drums,\u201d he explained, but then things went slightly off the rails with misunderstandings. Starr thought he\u2019d given Watt enough to create a song, but was \u201ca bit pissed,\u201d McCartney says when it wasn\u2019t enough. McCartney really liked Starr\u2019s contribution and created a song around growing up in Liverpool.\u00a0 \u201cEven though where we lived was a little rough, it was home to us,\u201d McCartney said.<\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney 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\u2019t like the song. Eventually, they talked through everything, and Starr came back, added more drums and the two turned the song into true collaboration.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cRingo\u2019s never done a duet with one of the Beatles,\u201d McCartney said with a laugh. Not surprising, it\u2019s probably the most Beatle-esque track on the album, with tempo shifts, key changes and layered vocals with assists from the Pretenders\u2019 Chrissie Hynde and Texas\u2019 Sharleen Spiteri.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cLife Can Be Hard\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tA sweet love song written during the COVID lockdown which McCartney and Shevell spent with Shevell\u2019s niece, her husband and their new baby. \u201cIt was very nice. Every day, [Nancy] would ask if she could wake the baby,\u201d McCartney said, once again grabbing an acoustic guitar. As the crowd cheered, he laughed and said, \u201cI haven\u2019t done anything! Let me try again.\u201d The audience again cheered, leading McCartney to very good-naturedly mutter, \u201cpathetic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tHe demonstrated how he created a gentle melody and then would let the baby strum the strings, leading Shevell\u2019s niece and husband to declare that \u201cit\u2019s our song.\u201d\u00a0The genial, simple song is meant to inspire hope for the future.\u00a0\u201cI like that tune,\u201d he said after it played. \u201cIt has very good memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cStar\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tMcCartney was touring in Costa Rica and had a day off, which he planned to spend lathered up with sunscreen poolside. But it was pouring rain most of the day. So, McCartney decided to write a song instead and came up with \u201cStar,\u201d another uplifting song. \u201cThe first star on the night is always special when you see it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt always gives me a little hope.\u201d The sweet, melodic acoustic tune stresses \u201cI know my little world is still alright,\u201d upon seeing the first star pop out each night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cSalesman Saint\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tAnother song that is extremely autobiographical features McCartney writing about his father, James, the \u201csalesman\u201d in the story, and his mother Mary, the titular \u201csaint\u201d and a nurse\/midwife. The couple met during WWII and McCartney\u2019s dad was also a fireman who would put out fires caused from Germany\u2019s bombing raids.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe moved outside of Liverpool with our parents making sure me and my brother, Mike, did ok,\u201d McCartney said, praising the resilience that his parents\u2019 generation exuded during tough times. The track opens with a trumpet and builds from there into a heavy tune with time signature shifts and the message in the lyrics of \u201cThey couldn\u2019t take anymore, but they had to carry on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cMomma Gets By\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe closing track starts as a lush, dramatic piano ballad that expand to strings and an orchestra. \u201cSometimes, writing a song, you don\u2019t draw on memory, you\u2019re making it up,\u201d McCartney said, referencing writing \u201cLady Madonna.\u201d Same with \u201cMomma Gets By,\u201d which includes the opening lines, \u201cMomma gets by, while papa gets high.\u201d But even though papa is a wastrel, Momma loves him with \u201call her heart and soul,\u201d as they struggle to put food on the table. McCartney sings from the perspective of their young son, though he stressed again this was not about his parents.<\/p>\n
\n\tFollowing the conclusion, McCartney noted how no one theme dominates the album (though nostalgia is a pretty recurring them), and that he worried about lack of cohesion. \u201cThen you remember the Beatles albums. We didn\u2019t worry about that,\u201d he said with a little smile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/P115PYZ3-e1776413955372.jpg?w=1024″] 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\u2019s newly christened Diamond Dust studio in Sherman Oaks, McCartney and Watt described the making of the album track by track before playing each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1887235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\t\u201cI was out in California. I\u2019ve always loved that Laurel Canyon vibe of the \u201870s. I was playing guitar trying to get that vibe. This is me trying to do that,\u201d McCartney said of the dense, heavy tune that then veers into a clarinet and then turns heavy again, with McCartney sounding a little like Lennon vocally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cHome To Us\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tBeatle 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\u2019t come together without some confusion, McCartney explained.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI saw Ringo and said I worked with this guy Andrew. Ringo came over to Andrew\u2019s studio and played a little bit of drums,\u201d he explained, but then things went slightly off the rails with misunderstandings. Starr thought he\u2019d given Watt enough to create a song, but was \u201ca bit pissed,\u201d McCartney says when it wasn\u2019t enough. McCartney really liked Starr\u2019s contribution and created a song around growing up in Liverpool.\u00a0 \u201cEven though where we lived was a little rough, it was home to us,\u201d McCartney said.<\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney 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\u2019t like the song. Eventually, they talked through everything, and Starr came back, added more drums and the two turned the song into true collaboration.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cRingo\u2019s never done a duet with one of the Beatles,\u201d McCartney said with a laugh. Not surprising, it\u2019s probably the most Beatle-esque track on the album, with tempo shifts, key changes and layered vocals with assists from the Pretenders\u2019 Chrissie Hynde and Texas\u2019 Sharleen Spiteri.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cLife Can Be Hard\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tA sweet love song written during the COVID lockdown which McCartney and Shevell spent with Shevell\u2019s niece, her husband and their new baby. \u201cIt was very nice. Every day, [Nancy] would ask if she could wake the baby,\u201d McCartney said, once again grabbing an acoustic guitar. As the crowd cheered, he laughed and said, \u201cI haven\u2019t done anything! Let me try again.\u201d The audience again cheered, leading McCartney to very good-naturedly mutter, \u201cpathetic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tHe demonstrated how he created a gentle melody and then would let the baby strum the strings, leading Shevell\u2019s niece and husband to declare that \u201cit\u2019s our song.\u201d\u00a0The genial, simple song is meant to inspire hope for the future.\u00a0\u201cI like that tune,\u201d he said after it played. \u201cIt has very good memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cStar\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tMcCartney was touring in Costa Rica and had a day off, which he planned to spend lathered up with sunscreen poolside. But it was pouring rain most of the day. So, McCartney decided to write a song instead and came up with \u201cStar,\u201d another uplifting song. \u201cThe first star on the night is always special when you see it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt always gives me a little hope.\u201d The sweet, melodic acoustic tune stresses \u201cI know my little world is still alright,\u201d upon seeing the first star pop out each night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cSalesman Saint\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tAnother song that is extremely autobiographical features McCartney writing about his father, James, the \u201csalesman\u201d in the story, and his mother Mary, the titular \u201csaint\u201d and a nurse\/midwife. The couple met during WWII and McCartney\u2019s dad was also a fireman who would put out fires caused from Germany\u2019s bombing raids.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe moved outside of Liverpool with our parents making sure me and my brother, Mike, did ok,\u201d McCartney said, praising the resilience that his parents\u2019 generation exuded during tough times. The track opens with a trumpet and builds from there into a heavy tune with time signature shifts and the message in the lyrics of \u201cThey couldn\u2019t take anymore, but they had to carry on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cMomma Gets By\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe closing track starts as a lush, dramatic piano ballad that expand to strings and an orchestra. \u201cSometimes, writing a song, you don\u2019t draw on memory, you\u2019re making it up,\u201d McCartney said, referencing writing \u201cLady Madonna.\u201d Same with \u201cMomma Gets By,\u201d which includes the opening lines, \u201cMomma gets by, while papa gets high.\u201d But even though papa is a wastrel, Momma loves him with \u201call her heart and soul,\u201d as they struggle to put food on the table. McCartney sings from the perspective of their young son, though he stressed again this was not about his parents.<\/p>\n
\n\tFollowing the conclusion, McCartney noted how no one theme dominates the album (though nostalgia is a pretty recurring them), and that he worried about lack of cohesion. \u201cThen you remember the Beatles albums. We didn\u2019t worry about that,\u201d he said with a little smile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\tBeatle 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\u2019t come together without some confusion, McCartney explained.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI saw Ringo and said I worked with this guy Andrew. Ringo came over to Andrew\u2019s studio and played a little bit of drums,\u201d he explained, but then things went slightly off the rails with misunderstandings. Starr thought he\u2019d given Watt enough to create a song, but was \u201ca bit pissed,\u201d McCartney says when it wasn\u2019t enough. McCartney really liked Starr\u2019s contribution and created a song around growing up in Liverpool.\u00a0 \u201cEven though where we lived was a little rough, it was home to us,\u201d McCartney said.<\/p>\n
\n\tMcCartney 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\u2019t like the song. Eventually, they talked through everything, and Starr came back, added more drums and the two turned the song into true collaboration.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cRingo\u2019s never done a duet with one of the Beatles,\u201d McCartney said with a laugh. Not surprising, it\u2019s probably the most Beatle-esque track on the album, with tempo shifts, key changes and layered vocals with assists from the Pretenders\u2019 Chrissie Hynde and Texas\u2019 Sharleen Spiteri.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cLife Can Be Hard\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tA sweet love song written during the COVID lockdown which McCartney and Shevell spent with Shevell\u2019s niece, her husband and their new baby. \u201cIt was very nice. Every day, [Nancy] would ask if she could wake the baby,\u201d McCartney said, once again grabbing an acoustic guitar. As the crowd cheered, he laughed and said, \u201cI haven\u2019t done anything! Let me try again.\u201d The audience again cheered, leading McCartney to very good-naturedly mutter, \u201cpathetic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tHe demonstrated how he created a gentle melody and then would let the baby strum the strings, leading Shevell\u2019s niece and husband to declare that \u201cit\u2019s our song.\u201d\u00a0The genial, simple song is meant to inspire hope for the future.\u00a0\u201cI like that tune,\u201d he said after it played. \u201cIt has very good memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cStar\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tMcCartney was touring in Costa Rica and had a day off, which he planned to spend lathered up with sunscreen poolside. But it was pouring rain most of the day. So, McCartney decided to write a song instead and came up with \u201cStar,\u201d another uplifting song. \u201cThe first star on the night is always special when you see it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt always gives me a little hope.\u201d The sweet, melodic acoustic tune stresses \u201cI know my little world is still alright,\u201d upon seeing the first star pop out each night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cSalesman Saint\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tAnother song that is extremely autobiographical features McCartney writing about his father, James, the \u201csalesman\u201d in the story, and his mother Mary, the titular \u201csaint\u201d and a nurse\/midwife. The couple met during WWII and McCartney\u2019s dad was also a fireman who would put out fires caused from Germany\u2019s bombing raids.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe moved outside of Liverpool with our parents making sure me and my brother, Mike, did ok,\u201d McCartney said, praising the resilience that his parents\u2019 generation exuded during tough times. The track opens with a trumpet and builds from there into a heavy tune with time signature shifts and the message in the lyrics of \u201cThey couldn\u2019t take anymore, but they had to carry on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cMomma Gets By\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe closing track starts as a lush, dramatic piano ballad that expand to strings and an orchestra. \u201cSometimes, writing a song, you don\u2019t draw on memory, you\u2019re making it up,\u201d McCartney said, referencing writing \u201cLady Madonna.\u201d Same with \u201cMomma Gets By,\u201d which includes the opening lines, \u201cMomma gets by, while papa gets high.\u201d But even though papa is a wastrel, Momma loves him with \u201call her heart and soul,\u201d as they struggle to put food on the table. McCartney sings from the perspective of their young son, though he stressed again this was not about his parents.<\/p>\n
\n\tFollowing the conclusion, McCartney noted how no one theme dominates the album (though nostalgia is a pretty recurring them), and that he worried about lack of cohesion. \u201cThen you remember the Beatles albums. We didn\u2019t worry about that,\u201d he said with a little smile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\tA sweet love song written during the COVID lockdown which McCartney and Shevell spent with Shevell\u2019s niece, her husband and their new baby. \u201cIt was very nice. Every day, [Nancy] would ask if she could wake the baby,\u201d McCartney said, once again grabbing an acoustic guitar. As the crowd cheered, he laughed and said, \u201cI haven\u2019t done anything! Let me try again.\u201d The audience again cheered, leading McCartney to very good-naturedly mutter, \u201cpathetic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tHe demonstrated how he created a gentle melody and then would let the baby strum the strings, leading Shevell\u2019s niece and husband to declare that \u201cit\u2019s our song.\u201d\u00a0The genial, simple song is meant to inspire hope for the future.\u00a0\u201cI like that tune,\u201d he said after it played. \u201cIt has very good memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cStar\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tMcCartney was touring in Costa Rica and had a day off, which he planned to spend lathered up with sunscreen poolside. But it was pouring rain most of the day. So, McCartney decided to write a song instead and came up with \u201cStar,\u201d another uplifting song. \u201cThe first star on the night is always special when you see it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt always gives me a little hope.\u201d The sweet, melodic acoustic tune stresses \u201cI know my little world is still alright,\u201d upon seeing the first star pop out each night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cSalesman Saint\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tAnother song that is extremely autobiographical features McCartney writing about his father, James, the \u201csalesman\u201d in the story, and his mother Mary, the titular \u201csaint\u201d and a nurse\/midwife. The couple met during WWII and McCartney\u2019s dad was also a fireman who would put out fires caused from Germany\u2019s bombing raids.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe moved outside of Liverpool with our parents making sure me and my brother, Mike, did ok,\u201d McCartney said, praising the resilience that his parents\u2019 generation exuded during tough times. The track opens with a trumpet and builds from there into a heavy tune with time signature shifts and the message in the lyrics of \u201cThey couldn\u2019t take anymore, but they had to carry on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\n\u201cMomma Gets By\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe closing track starts as a lush, dramatic piano ballad that expand to strings and an orchestra. \u201cSometimes, writing a song, you don\u2019t draw on memory, you\u2019re making it up,\u201d McCartney said, referencing writing \u201cLady Madonna.\u201d Same with \u201cMomma Gets By,\u201d which includes the opening lines, \u201cMomma gets by, while papa gets high.\u201d But even though papa is a wastrel, Momma loves him with \u201call her heart and soul,\u201d as they struggle to put food on the table. McCartney sings from the perspective of their young son, though he stressed again this was not about his parents.<\/p>\n
\n\tFollowing the conclusion, McCartney noted how no one theme dominates the album (though nostalgia is a pretty recurring them), and that he worried about lack of cohesion. \u201cThen you remember the Beatles albums. We didn\u2019t worry about that,\u201d he said with a little smile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/P115PYZ3-e1776413955372.jpg?w=1024″] 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\u2019s newly christened Diamond Dust studio in Sherman Oaks, McCartney and Watt described the making of the album track by track before playing each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1887235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tMcCartney was touring in Costa Rica and had a day off, which he planned to spend lathered up with sunscreen poolside. But it was pouring rain most of the day. So, McCartney decided to write a song instead and came up with \u201cStar,\u201d another uplifting song. \u201cThe first star on the night is always special when you see it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt always gives me a little hope.\u201d The sweet, melodic acoustic tune stresses \u201cI know my little world is still alright,\u201d upon seeing the first star pop out each night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cSalesman Saint\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tAnother song that is extremely autobiographical features McCartney writing about his father, James, the \u201csalesman\u201d in the story, and his mother Mary, the titular \u201csaint\u201d and a nurse\/midwife. The couple met during WWII and McCartney\u2019s dad was also a fireman who would put out fires caused from Germany\u2019s bombing raids.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe moved outside of Liverpool with our parents making sure me and my brother, Mike, did ok,\u201d McCartney said, praising the resilience that his parents\u2019 generation exuded during tough times. The track opens with a trumpet and builds from there into a heavy tune with time signature shifts and the message in the lyrics of \u201cThey couldn\u2019t take anymore, but they had to carry on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u201cMomma Gets By\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe closing track starts as a lush, dramatic piano ballad that expand to strings and an orchestra. \u201cSometimes, writing a song, you don\u2019t draw on memory, you\u2019re making it up,\u201d McCartney said, referencing writing \u201cLady Madonna.\u201d Same with \u201cMomma Gets By,\u201d which includes the opening lines, \u201cMomma gets by, while papa gets high.\u201d But even though papa is a wastrel, Momma loves him with \u201call her heart and soul,\u201d as they struggle to put food on the table. McCartney sings from the perspective of their young son, though he stressed again this was not about his parents.<\/p>\n
\n\tFollowing the conclusion, McCartney noted how no one theme dominates the album (though nostalgia is a pretty recurring them), and that he worried about lack of cohesion. \u201cThen you remember the Beatles albums. We didn\u2019t worry about that,\u201d he said with a little smile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/P115PYZ3-e1776413955372.jpg?w=1024″] 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\u2019s newly christened Diamond Dust studio in Sherman Oaks, McCartney and Watt described the making of the album track by track before playing each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1887235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tAnother song that is extremely autobiographical features McCartney writing about his father, James, the \u201csalesman\u201d in the story, and his mother Mary, the titular \u201csaint\u201d and a nurse\/midwife. The couple met during WWII and McCartney\u2019s dad was also a fireman who would put out fires caused from Germany\u2019s bombing raids.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe moved outside of Liverpool with our parents making sure me and my brother, Mike, did ok,\u201d McCartney said, praising the resilience that his parents\u2019 generation exuded during tough times. The track opens with a trumpet and builds from there into a heavy tune with time signature shifts and the message in the lyrics of \u201cThey couldn\u2019t take anymore, but they had to carry on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\u201cMomma Gets By\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe closing track starts as a lush, dramatic piano ballad that expand to strings and an orchestra. \u201cSometimes, writing a song, you don\u2019t draw on memory, you\u2019re making it up,\u201d McCartney said, referencing writing \u201cLady Madonna.\u201d Same with \u201cMomma Gets By,\u201d which includes the opening lines, \u201cMomma gets by, while papa gets high.\u201d But even though papa is a wastrel, Momma loves him with \u201call her heart and soul,\u201d as they struggle to put food on the table. McCartney sings from the perspective of their young son, though he stressed again this was not about his parents.<\/p>\n
\n\tFollowing the conclusion, McCartney noted how no one theme dominates the album (though nostalgia is a pretty recurring them), and that he worried about lack of cohesion. \u201cThen you remember the Beatles albums. We didn\u2019t worry about that,\u201d he said with a little smile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/P115PYZ3-e1776413955372.jpg?w=1024″] 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\u2019s newly christened Diamond Dust studio in Sherman Oaks, McCartney and Watt described the making of the album track by track before playing each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1887235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tThe closing track starts as a lush, dramatic piano ballad that expand to strings and an orchestra. \u201cSometimes, writing a song, you don\u2019t draw on memory, you\u2019re making it up,\u201d McCartney said, referencing writing \u201cLady Madonna.\u201d Same with \u201cMomma Gets By,\u201d which includes the opening lines, \u201cMomma gets by, while papa gets high.\u201d But even though papa is a wastrel, Momma loves him with \u201call her heart and soul,\u201d as they struggle to put food on the table. McCartney sings from the perspective of their young son, though he stressed again this was not about his parents.<\/p>\n
\n\tFollowing the conclusion, McCartney noted how no one theme dominates the album (though nostalgia is a pretty recurring them), and that he worried about lack of cohesion. \u201cThen you remember the Beatles albums. We didn\u2019t worry about that,\u201d he said with a little smile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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