Paul McCartney’s "The Boys of Dungeon Lane" turns memory into melody

"This was a lot of memories of Liverpool for me," he remarked in a recent Abbey Road Studios listening session

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May 12, 2026 4:05PM (EDT)

Paul McCartney (Jim Dyson/Getty Images)

“The Boys of Dungeon Lane,” Paul McCartney’s twenty-seventh post-Beatles studio album, is the portrait of an artist in his twilight, a rich assortment of storytelling and nostalgia befitting the world’s greatest living songwriter. “The Boys of Dungeon Lane” rests easily alongside McCartney’s finest twenty-first-century LPs, especially “Chaos and Creation in the Backyard” (2005) and “McCartney III” (2020).