Paul McCartney has revealed his new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane. To support the record, he’s made an appearance on the web show Chicken Shop Date, sitting opposite host Amelia Dimoldenberg for a conversation about love, life, Liverpool, and The Beatles.
Serving as Dimoldenberg’s second episode of Chicken Shop Date in 2026 (the first being Conan O’Brien back in March), McCartney’s turn on the beloved web show was as awkward and charming as you’d expect. McCartney discussed his first guitar and how it felt apart, explained why he doesn’t have any tattoos, confessed that he’s “never signed a butt,” and told a story of him and original Beatles drummer Pete Best lighting a condom on fire at a hotel in Hamburg (“You’ve never burned a condom? You haven’t lived ’til you’ve burned a condom,” said McCartney). He also discussed his dancing ability and gave Dimoldenberg a few moves as an example, and urged Dimoldenberg, “don’t plant any marijuana seeds.”
Meanwhile, Dimoldenberg flirted with him over a misheard comment about the Union Jack flag, threw a handful of Beatles references his way, and got deep with McCartney about dreams, love songs, flowers, and more. Watch McCartney’s Chicken Shop Date appearance below.
Out today, The Boys of Dungeon Lane serves as McCartney’s 20th solo album and his first since 2020’s McCartney III. It was produced by Andrew Watt and recorded throughout the last five years in Los Angeles and McCartney’s Hogg Hill Mill studio in East Sussex. The album notably features a collaboration with his Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr, with Starr contributing drums and vocals to the song “Home to Us.” McCartney has deemed the album to be “his most introspective album to date,” reflecting on his childhood and upbringing in post-WWII Liverpool, the onset of his musical career, and his family.
McCartney’s been plenty active promoting the new record over the last few months, making appearances on the final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, as the musical guest on the season finale of Saturday Night Live, and performing a pair of intimate Los Angeles concerts back in March.
He’s also opened up about the album and his career in several interviews: He discussed an experience seeing Bob Dylan live, which he enjoyed even if he “couldn’t tell” what songs he was playing, he claimed that playing “Hey Jude” in the US unites fans in “Trump’s America,” he remarked that he doesn’t take selfies with fans because he doesn’t want to feel like a monkey, and he recently teased an unreleased duet between him and Prince, taken from the latter’s 2007 live cover of The Beatles’ “The Long and Winding Road.”
Stream the new Paul McCartney album below.
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The Boys of Dungeon Lane Tracklist:
01. As You Lie There
02. Lost Horizon
03. Days We Left Behind
04. Ripples in a Pond
05. Mountain Top
06. Down South
07. We Two
08. Come Inside
09. Never Know
10. Home to Us (feat. Ringo Starr)
11. Life Can Be Hard
12. First Star of the Night
13. Salesman Saint
14. Momma Gets By
