Paul McCartney has announced his first solo album in five years, with The Boys of Dungeon Lane set to drop on May 29 via MPL/Capitol Records. According to a press release, the album will be one of Paul’s most introspective to date, as it sees him ”writing with rare openness about his childhood in post-war Liverpool, the resilience of his parents, and early adventures shared with George Harrison and John Lennon long before the world had ever heard of Beatlemania.”
The album is preceded by first single “Days We Left Behind,” which McCartney described as a “memory song.” He elaborated: “I was thinking just that, about the days I left behind and I do often wonder if I’m just writing about the past but then I think how can you write about anything else? It’s just a lot of memories of Liverpool. It involves a bit in the middle about John and Forthlin Road which is the street I used to live in. Dungeon Lane is near there. I used to live in a place called Speke which is quite working class. We didn’t have much at all but it didn’t matter because all the people were great and you didn’t notice you didn’t have much.”
Check out “Days We Left Behind” below, and pre-order The Boys of Dungeon Lane here.
