Paul McCartney recalls Yesterday with first album in five years

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Paul McCartney

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British pop legend and former Beatle Paul McCartney on Thursday released a new single and announced his first album in over five years, examining his life in Liverpool before global stardom.

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The 83-year-old, one of the most successful artists of all time, announced the 14-track album titled “The Boys Of Dungeon Lane”, taking listeners on a trip down memory lane in the northern English city.

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It will include early adventures with his late bandmates George Harrison and John Lennon, prior to Beatles fame, according to the singer’s website.

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“The Boys of Dungeon Lane is his most introspective album to date and takes the listener back to where it all began,” McCartney’s website states.

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McCartney named the album, which will be released on May 29, after Dungeon Lane, a place close to his childhood home in the Liverpool suburb of Speke.

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It is referenced in the newly released single “Days We Left Behind”, which the songwriter described as a “memory song” that inspired the album title.

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The record will also feature new love songs and memories of life before the Beatles.

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“I do often wonder if I’m just writing about the past but then I think how can you write about anything else?” McCartney said in a statement on his website. “It’s just a lot of memories of Liverpool.”

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“We didn’t have much at all but it didn’t matter because all the people were great and you didn’t notice you didn’t have much.”

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The announcement comes ahead of two live performances in Los Angeles this weekend, his first since the November 2025 finale of his over three-year-long “Got Back Tour”.

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Formed in 1960, the Beatles — McCartney, Lennon, Harrison and Ringo Starr — went on to become the best-selling musical act of all time.

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McCartney wrote or partnered with Lennon to write many of their biggest hits, including “Yesterday”, “Hey Jude”, “Let it Be” and “Yellow Submarine”.

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Following the band’s split in 1970, the Beatles bassist continued writing and performing with hits including “Maybe I’m Amazed”, “Live and Let Die” and “Band on the Run”.

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