LONDON—Paul McCartney takes followers down the streets of his Liverpool childhood in his first solo album in additional than 5 years due out in Might.
The title “The Boys of Dungeon Lane” comes from a lyric within the album’s first single “Days We Left Behind”, launched on Thursday – “a reminiscence tune for me,” McCartney mentioned in an announcement.
“I used to be pondering simply that, in regards to the days I left behind and I usually surprise if I am simply writing in regards to the previous, however then I believe how will you write about the rest? It is simply quite a lot of recollections of Liverpool,” the 83-year-old mentioned.
The tracks evoke his childhood in post-war Liverpool, his mother and father and adventures shared with band mates George Harrison and John Lennon earlier than the world had woken as much as the Beatles, based on an announcement on his web site.
“It includes a bit within the center about John and Forthlin Highway which is the road I used to stay in. Dungeon Lane is close to there,” McCartney mentioned about “Days We Left Behind”.
“I used to stay in a spot referred to as Speke which is kind of working class. We did not have a lot in any respect however it did not matter as a result of all of the folks had been nice and also you did not discover you did not have a lot.”
McCartney labored with producer Andrew Watt and recorded the album, which additionally contains new love songs, in Los Angeles and Sussex, between legs of his international tour.
“The Boys of Dungeon Lane” is McCartney’s 18th solo studio album.