Paul McCartney Is Expanding His Most Personal Album Yet — With Four New Songs and Another Ringo Starr Collaboration

Paul McCartney isn’t finished with The Boys of Dungeon Lane.

Just months after releasing an album steeped in memories of Liverpool, John Lennon and his earliest years with The Beatles, McCartney is preparing an expanded edition featuring four additional tracks — including a new version of his collaboration with Ringo Starr.

The Boys of Dungeon Lane Special Edition will arrive digitally on October 7, followed by a double-vinyl release on December 9.

The expanded version contains 18 tracks and follows an impressive run for the original album, which reached No. 1 in the U.K. and No. 5 in the U.S.

It has also earned McCartney his first nomination for the prestigious Mercury Prize.

Four More Songs Are Coming From the Album Sessions

The original record was released in May and quickly attracted attention for its unusually personal look backward.

Now McCartney is opening the vault on more material created during the same sessions.

The four additions are:

“City Fox,” “One Night Stand,” “Chelsea Boots” and a new version of “Home to Us.”

The latter is particularly significant because it features Ringo Starr, McCartney’s fellow surviving Beatle.

The original “Home to Us” was already one of the album’s most notable collaborations, bringing the two former bandmates together again. Its inclusion in another form gives the expanded edition an additional connection to McCartney’s Beatles past.

All four tracks emerged from sessions held between 2021 and 2025 with producer Andrew Watt.

The Album Is Filled With Memories of The Beatles

Although McCartney has spent decades looking forward creatively, The Boys of Dungeon Lane repeatedly turns his attention toward the people and places that shaped him.

Songs including “Days We Left Behind” and “We Two” reflect on his relationships with his Beatles bandmates.

“Days We Left Behind” is especially personal.

McCartney described it as “very much a memory song” and revealed that the album itself took its name from one of its lyrics.

The song reaches back to Liverpool and the period when McCartney and John Lennon were beginning their musical journey together.

“I was thinking just that, about the days I left behind,” McCartney explained.

He acknowledged that he sometimes wonders whether he spends too much time writing about his past.

But for McCartney, those memories remain an unavoidable source of inspiration.

“How can you write about anything else?” he reflected.

John Lennon and Forthlin Road Remain Part of the Story

Among the memories woven into the song are Lennon and Forthlin Road, where McCartney lived during his youth.

It was inside the McCartney family home at 20 Forthlin Road that an extraordinary songwriting partnership developed during the formative period of The Beatles.

McCartney also recalled Dungeon Lane and his childhood in Speke.

“I used to live in a place called Speke, which is quite working class,” he said.

Material wealth was limited.

“We didn’t have much at all,” McCartney recalled.

Yet that isn’t how he remembers those years.

“It didn’t matter because all the people were great and you didn’t notice you didn’t have much.”

That sentiment helps explain why The Boys of Dungeon Lane has been described as one of the musician’s most nostalgic releases.

Rather than simply revisiting The Beatles as a cultural phenomenon, McCartney is looking back at the ordinary streets, friendships and experiences that existed before global fame arrived.

The Special Edition Gets Completely New Artwork

The expanded release won’t simply add music.

It will also arrive with new artwork created by Kate Gibb.

The cover features a silkscreened collage assembled using more than 100 images from McCartney’s personal collection, extending the autobiographical nature of the music into the album’s visual presentation.

The result promises to make the special edition feel less like a conventional reissue and more like an extension of the memories that inspired the original project.

For an artist whose career stretches back more than six decades, McCartney continues to find new material in places that have been with him almost from the beginning.

Liverpool. Forthlin Road. John Lennon. Ringo Starr. The years before Beatlemania changed everything.

Now four more songs are being added to that story — and at 84, Paul McCartney is still finding new ways to revisit the boys and streets that helped start it all.