Listen to Paul McCartney’s First-Ever Duet with Ringo Starr

Paul McCartney simply launched his first-ever duet with fellow Beatle Ringo Starr. “Home to Us” is McCartney’s newest preview fifth upcoming solo album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, and in addition options Chrissie Hynde and Sharleen Spiteri on backing vocals. Listen to it under.

“Home to Us” is the one observe on The Boys of Dungeon Lane that incorporates a visitor drummer, and was initially constructed round a drum observe McCartney and producer Andrew Watt requested Starr to file for the album. Starr had initially deliberate to solely sing a line or two, however McCartney upped the ante, asking him to come on for a full duet. “In writing the song I’m talking about where we came from. In common with a lot of people, you come from nothing and you build yourself up,” McCartney shared in an announcement. “Ringo was from the Dingle, and that was very hard. He said he used to get mugged coming home, because he worked. Even though it was crazy, it was home to us.”

The music is McCartney and Starr’s first collaboration since 2023’s “Now and Then,” a observe primarily based round a vocal run from John Lennon that was unearthed in 1994. Although the concept of ​​constructing on the vocal was initially acknowledged due to poor audio high quality, AI expertise launched to McCartney and Starr by director Peter Jackson allowed them to make use of it. It was billed because the “final” Beatles music, and arrived alongside a music video directed by Jackson.

The Boys of Dungeon Lanewhich is due out on May 29 on MPL/Capital, has been framed as an autobiographical survey of McCartney’s childhood in post-war Liverpool. He launched a lead single, “Days We Left Behind,” again in March.