Paul McCartney returned to SNL for the season 51 finale, playing the lead single from his forthcoming album The Boys of Dungeon Lane and a surprise encore during the credits.
Fifteen months after closing out Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary special with an Abbey Road medley, Paul McCartney was back for the season 51 finale. He gave the show two songs, a surprise encore, and another entry in a late-night history that goes back to 1980.
McCartney opened with “Days We Left Behind,” the lead single from The Boys of Dungeon Lane, his 18th solo album and first since 2020’s McCartney III. The track draws on childhood memories of Liverpool, and McCartney has spoken plainly about that pull. “I do often wonder if I’m just writing about the past,” he said in a statement earlier this year, “but then I think how can you write about anything else?” The album, produced with Andrew Watt between Got Back tour dates, also includes the duet “Home to Us” with Ringo Starr.
For his second performance
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