Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr deliver love letter to Liverpool on new duet, ‘Home to Us’
Paul McCartney has officially released his first duet with his Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr, titled ‘Home to Us’.
The uplifting new track is the second single from his forthcoming album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, which is set to arrive on May 29th, 2026.
‘Home to Us’ finds Starr and McCartney swapping lines throughout the track, while reminiscing fondly about their early days in Liverpool. Although money was tight, as they sing in the song, ‘It was home to us’.
Other charming lyrics in ‘Home to Us’ include, “My mum was in the kitchen washing dishes in the sink, And then she burnt the toast, The kids are in the alley playing ball until the sun goes down, But that was my hometown, And it was home to us.”
They also sing, “The world around us wasn’t safe, the place was falling down, But that was my hometown, And it was all I knew, ‘Cause it was home to us.”
‘Home to Us’, just like the title track from the forthcoming record, taps into a wider theme of McCartney looking back at his youth and taking a moment to savour the memories he collated all those years ago before The Beatles took over the world.
In press materials announcing The Boys of Dungeon Lane, it was stated that the album finds McCartney “candid, vulnerable and deeply reflective mood, writing with rare openness about his childhood in post-war Liverpool, the resilience of his parents, and early adventures shared with George Harrison and John Lennon long before the world had ever heard of Beatlemania.”
Earlier this week, at a fan event held at Abbey Road Studios, McCartney provided a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the creation of ‘Home to Us’.
He told 50 lucky fans in attendance, “In writing the song, I’m talking about where we came from. 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.”
McCartney continued, “Even though it was crazy, it was home to us. I made the song around that idea and sent it to Ringo.”
Watch the lyric video for ‘Home to Us’ below.
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