"“Home to Us” is the latest preview of McCartney's forthcoming fifth solo album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, and also features Chrissie Hynde and Sharleen Spiteri on backing vocals. “Home to Us” is the only track on The Boys of Dungeon Lane that features a guest drummer, and was originally built around a drum track McCartney and producer Andrew Watt asked Starr to record for the album."
"Starr had initially planned to only sing a line or two, but 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 a statement."
"“Ringo was from the Dingle, and that was well hard. He said he used to get mugged coming home, because he worked. Even though it was crazy, it was home to us.” The song is McCartney and Starr's first collaboration since 2023's “Now and Then,” a track based around a vocal run from John Lennon that was unearthed in 1994."
"Although the idea of building on the vocal was initially tabled due to poor audio quality, AI technology introduced to McCartney and Starr by director Peter Jackson allowed them to make use of it. It was billed as the “final” Beatles song, and arrived alongside a music video directed by Jackson. The Boys of Dungeon Lane, which is due out on May 29 on MPL/Capital, has been framed as an autobiographical survey of McCartney's childhood in post-war Liverpool."
“Home to Us” is a duet between Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, previewing McCartney’s forthcoming fifth solo album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane. The track includes backing vocals from Chrissie Hynde and Sharleen Spiteri and is the only album track featuring a guest drummer. The song was built around a drum track recorded by Starr at McCartney and producer Andrew Watt’s request. Starr initially expected to sing only a line or two, but McCartney asked him to join for a full duet. The collaboration follows their 2023 track “Now and Then,” which used a John Lennon vocal enhanced with AI technology introduced by Peter Jackson. The Boys of Dungeon Lane is scheduled for May 29 and is framed as an autobiographical look at McCartney’s childhood in post-war Liverpool.
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