Paul McCartney has released his first-ever duet with Ringo Starr. ‘Home to Me’ appears on McCartney’s forthcoming album The Boys of Dungeon Lane, and it also includes vocals from Chrissie Hynde and Sharleen Spiteri. Listen to it below.
“In writing the song I’m talking about where we came from,” McCartney shared in a statement. “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.”
McCartney noted that Starr initially only sang fragments of the chorus after receiving the demo, but McCartney asked him to sing the entire song. “We took my first line, Ringo’s second line, and then we had a duet,” McCartney told fans at a secret album playback event at Abbey Road Studios. “We’d never done that before.”
The Boys of Dungeon Lane, Macca’s eighteenth solo album, arrives May 29 via MPL/Capitol. It’s already been previewed by the single ‘Days We Left Behind’.
