Former Beatle announces a new first album, the first in six years, with the release of a single called “The Day We Left Behind”.
It had been six years since he released an album: Paul McCartney announces his big return with a new project, scheduled for May 2026. As a first glimpse, the former Beatle unveiled a single called The Day We Left Behind, on Friday, March 27. A melancholic, nostalgic, and acoustic track that reconnects with the pop music that brought him solo success.
“Nothing ever stays the same / No one needs to cry / Nothing can bring back / The days we left behind”, sings Paul McCartney.
This single heralds a new album, the 19th in over six decades of solo career, which will be released on May 29, 2026. Consisting of 14 songs, the album will be named The Boys of Dungeon Lane, after a street in Speke, the neighborhood in Liverpool where he grew up, after the war, before meeting his future Beatles bandmates.
“This new project is a concentration of childhood memories. According to his own words to the BBC, this album will be a collection of revealing memories ‘never shared before.’ ‘I often wonder if I’m just writing about the past, but then I think: how could you write about anything else?’ he muses on the British radio.
According to a statement accompanying the project, this is “his most introspective album to date, bringing the listener back to the origins. These exceptional new songs reveal a Paul writing with rare sincerity about his childhood in post-war Liverpool, the resilience of his parents, and his early adventures shared with George Harrison and John Lennon, long before the world heard of Beatlemania.”
Paul and George met on the bus to school when they were 14 and 13 years old in 1956. They quickly bonded over their shared love of music. Paul met John Lennon a bit later, in 1957, at St. Peter’s parish church in Woolton, Liverpool.
