Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr sing together on Paul’s new album

A rare duet by surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr is a song about their shared history growing up in Liverpool.

Details below, along with news and videos of Ringo’s new album.

7 May 2026

Paul McCartney’s latest album The Boys of Dungeon Lane will be released in three weeks. On it will be a duet with Ringo called Home to Us, with Ringo sharing vocals and playing drums. This is the first time the pair have recorded together in their respective solo careers.

The two surviving Beatles sing nostalgic lyrics about growing up in Liverpool. Paul says Home to Us was written “totally with Ringo in mind”. Backing vocals were provided by Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders) and Sharleen Spiteri (Texas).

This new album by Paul follows the recent release of Ringo’s 22nd solo album Long Long Road (more on that below).

In a media release, McCartney said:
“Ringo went round to the studio and drummed a bit. I said to Andrew (producer Andrew Watt), we should make a track and send it to him. So this song is done totally with Ringo in mind.
“In writing the song I’m talking about where we came from. In common with a lot of people, you come from nothing and you build yourself up. Ringo was from the Dingle, and that was well hard. He said he used to get mugged coming home, because he worked. Even though it was crazy, it was home to us.
“I made the song around that idea and sent it to Ringo. He sent me back a version where he just added some lines to the chorus, so I thought, maybe he doesn’t like it. I rang him and he said he thought I only wanted him to sing one or two lines, and I said I’d love to hear him sing the whole thing. So we took my first line, Ringo’s second line, and then we had a duet. We’d never done that before.
“Then we wanted some backing vocals and I had the idea it would be nice to hear girls. Chrissie Hynde said she’d do it, and Sharleen Spiteri, they’re mates. So they did it.”

The song Home to Us and the album The Boys of Dungeon Lane will be released on 29 May. Paul plays most of the instruments on the album, which he says is his “most introspective” to date.

In his songs, we will find the 83 year old in a “candid, vulnerable and deeply reflective mood, writing with rare openness about […] the resilience of his parents, and early adventures shared with George Harrison and John Lennon long before the world had ever heard of Beatlemania”.

The Boys of Dungeon Lane is Paul’s first album since McCartney III in 2020.

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RINGO STARR

Ringo Starr has also been in the recording studio, releasing Long Long Road on 24 April. The country rock album was produced by the legendary T-Bone Burnett and features guest performers St. Vincent, Sheryl Crow and Billy Strings.

Burnett wrote or co-wrote six of the tracks on the album, including the first single It’s Been Too Long. Starr co-wrote three songs.

Ringo Starr: Long Long Road