Paul McCartney has announced the release of his 19th solo album, which will be titled ‘The Boys of Dungeon Lane’ and will be available to listen to from May 29. The title is a reference to McCartney’s Liverpool origins and comes from the lyrics of ‘Days We Left Behind’, the album’s first preview.
“Dungeon Lane” is the name of a street in Liverpool, very close to Forthlin Road, in the suburb of Speke, where McCartney spent his childhood and adolescence, before forming the Beatles.
“This is very much a song about memories,” the artist says of ‘Days We Left Behind’. “I was thinking just about that, about the days I left behind, and I often wonder if I’m just writing about the past, but then I think: how can you write about anything else?”
McCartney remembers the times when he played “cheap guitars” and watched the “larks fly” in this ballad with folk echoes, written on acoustic guitar, piano, banjo and strings, and which conveys a nostalgic and sentimental tone. In the chorus, McCartney sings about the strength of memories: “Nothing can erase the days we leave behind.”
‘The Boys of Dungeon Lane’ is an album co-produced by Andrew Watt and is made up of 14 tracks. ‘Days We Left Behind’ will go third in the sequence:
“As You Lie There”
“Lost Horizon”
“Days We Left Behind”
“Ripples in a Pond”
“Mountain Top”
“Down South”
“We Two”
“Come Inside”
“Never Know”
“Home to Us”
“Life Can Be Hard”
“First Star of the Night”
“Salesman Saint”
“Momma Gets By”
