Paul McCartney found a guitar chord he didn’t recognise while having tea with Andrew Watt – and was so inspired he recorded a new album
Music theory is boundless. And even a musician as distinguished and accomplished as Paul McCartney is still exploring nearly 70 years into his illustrious career.
That quest for discovery recently reached an inflection point in the unlikeliest of situations – over a cup of tea with producer Andrew Watt.
As the story goes, the Beatles legend and the mega-producer met for a casual “exchange of ideas” five years ago, when Macca stumbled upon a chord he couldn’t identify. He began experimenting with note choices, and his inspiration was so profound after coming up with a new three-chord sequence that he ended up writing an entire full-length album.
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And that album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, is set to arrive 29 May via MPL/Capitol Records. It’s set to bring “Wings-style rock, Beatles-style harmonies, McCartney-style grooves, understated intimacy and melody-driven storytelling – par for the course for Macca, then.
With “no record label pressure and no deadline” The Boys of Dungeon Lane was recorded over the last five years in both Los Angeles and Sussex, to McCartney and Watt’s “own timeline and satisfaction”.
You can listen to the first single from the album, Days We Left Behind, right now:
“This is very much a memory song for me. The album title, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, comes from a lyric in this track. I was thinking just that, about the days I left behind and I do often wonder if I’m just writing about the past but then I think how can you write about anything else?
“It’s just a lot of memories of Liverpool. It involves a bit in the middle about John and Forthlin Road which is the street I used to live in. Dungeon Lane is near there. I used to live in a place called Speke which is quite working class. We didn’t have much at all but it didn’t matter because all the people were great and you didn’t notice you didn’t have much.”
The Boys of Dungeon Lane’s tracklist is as follows:
As You Lie There
Lost Horizon
Days We Left Behind
Ripples in a Pond
Mountain Top
Down South
We Two
Come Inside
Never Know
Home to Us
Life Can Be Hard
First Star of the Night
Salesman Saint
Momma Gets By
The Boys of Dungeon Lane is available to preorder now.
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