Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunite to release brand new duet
Beatles legends Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have teamed up to record what could be their final song together - a nostalgic duet about growing up in Liverpool. Home To Us will appear on Sir Paul’s new album when it is released next month.
And there is even a new ‘Fab Four’ on the track, as it also features backing vocals from the Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde and Texas’ Sharleen Spiteri. A small gathering of fans were treated to an album preview in Los Angeles last week with Beatle Sir Paul. And amongst the songs played was Home To Us, which initially Ringo played drums on but later also sang on. The pair are thought to duet on the chorus.
Sir Paul told the audience: “Ringo’s never done a duet with one of the Beatles.” Ringo also confirmed he had made a song with Sir Paul on the Jimmy Kimmel show earlier this week, but kept the full details under wraps.
Ringo said: “It started two years ago with the drums, it was like in reverse, the drums went on first. It’s amusing and very real because that is where we come from.” The theme of the song is based about where they grew up in Liverpool which Sir Paul describes as being “a little rough, but home to us”.
Last month the first track from the album, The Boys From Dungeon Lane, was released called Days We Left Behind. The album is said to be a revisit to his the formative years in Liverpool that went on to shape not only his life, but “the very foundations of modern popular culture”.
Speaking about Days We Left Behind, Paul said: “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.”
Source: mirror.co.uk/Mark Jefferies
