Apr 17, 2026 2:40pm PT

Paul McCartney Goes Deep Inside ‘The Boys of Dungeon Lane’ at Secret L.A. Listening Session — Including Unveiling His First-Ever Duet With Ringo Starr

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Taylor Swift is famous for her “Secret Sessions,” where, for most of her albums of the pre-COVID era, she invited a few dozen select fans to sit in a living room and be the first to experience a new album and hear her stories about how she wrote and recorded each song. Paul McCartney might have seemed like a less likely candidate to give fans that severe a level of intimacy in unveiling a new album, but he did just that Thursday night, as his team invited between 30-40 fans to hear his forthcoming “The Boys of Dungeon Lane” album at Andrew Watt‘s L.A.-area studio. Invitees were hoping and suspecting McCartney might pop in for a wave or a comment before or after the listening session. Few guessed they would be spending an hour and 40 minutes with the man himself — with Watt as a gleeful but mostly silent bystander — as the former Beatle shared fairly detailed musical and lyrical insights into all 14 tracks from his first album in six years.

Paul McCartney Goes Deep Inside 'The Boys of Dungeon Lane' at Secret L.A. Listening Session — Including Unveiling His First-Ever Duet With Ringo Starr