At a private playback event in Abbey Road, McCartney spoke about a song written directly for his former Beatles bandmate, featuring Chrissie Hynde and Sharleen Spiteri on backing vocals.
Paul McCartney played his upcoming duet with Ringo Starr for a small audience at Abbey Road on May 5. The track, “Home To Us,” appears on McCartney’s new album The Boys Of Dungeon Lane, out later this month, and will be released as a single on Friday, May 8. Chrissie Hynde and Sharleen Spiteri of Texas add backing vocals.
McCartney explained the song’s origin. “Ringo went round to the studio and drummed a bit. I said to Andrew, we should make a track and send it to him,” he told the crowd, referring to producer Andrew Watt. “So this song is done totally with Ringo in mind.” The result was built around Starr’s playing and his history with McCartney, reaching back to Liverpool.
Lyrically, the song digs into where the two came from. McCartney has spoken before about growing up in Allerton and the sharp contrasts with Starr’s Dingle neighborhood, once a notoriously rough area. That shared geography, rarely discussed in their music, gives the collaboration a sense of place that goes beyond nostalgia.
The Abbey Road playback also introduced other new material from the album. Hy
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