Paul McCartney’s New Album Coincides with a Sharp Chicken Shop Date Appearance

Paul McCartney’s new album, The Boys Of Dungeon Lane, is out today via MPL/UMG. It’s the record that features his first duet with Ringo Starr, and it follows a string of high-profile appearances: the SNL season finale, the final episode of Colbert, and an interview with Paul Mescal, the actor set to play McCartney in the upcoming Beatles biopics. Then, on release day, McCartney sat down with Amelia Dimoldenberg for an episode of Chicken Shop Date.

The choice makes sense. Dimoldenberg’s series, built on a deliberately unpolished and weirdly charming interview format, taps into a comedic tradition that McCartney himself knows well — the dry, half-ironic British deadpan that A Hard Day’s Night helped cement. Watching McCartney navigate Dimoldenberg’s off-kilter questions over vegan nuggets, that shared sensibility is evident. “I saw you before at Glastonbury. I cried,” she tells him. “We were that bad?” he replies. Later, she asks him who his favorite Beatle is. It’s not a monumental exchange, but it lands with a casual ease that a more polished interview rarely captures.

The Boys Of Dungeon Lane arrives with little of the ceremony that often surrounds a McCartney release, but its rollout feels intentional — a mix of legacy-stage respect and off-center charm. The duet with Starr, at 83, carries its own quiet weight. The album is available now, and the Chicken Shop Date episode is streaming.