McCartney Adds Three Unreleased Songs to 'The Boys of Dungeon Lane'

Paul McCartney will release a special edition of The Boys of Dungeon Lane featuring three previously unreleased songs and a new version of his duet with fellow surviving Beatle Ringo Starr, "Home to Us."

The three new tracks are "City Fox," "One Night Stand" and "Chelsea Boots." For the new rendition of "Home to Us," McCartney and Starr switch their original vocal parts, producing what the release calls a "flip mix" of the song, which reflects on their early days in Liverpool.

The physical edition carries a cover taken from a silkscreened collage by Kate Gibb. The collage incorporates more than 100 images from McCartney's personal collection. The edition will be available as a limited 2LP pressing on orange and blue marble vinyl, as well as on CD, and is open for pre-order now.

The expanded track list runs to 18 songs. It keeps the original album's 14 tracks, including "Days We Left Behind," "Ripples in a Pond" and "First Star of the Night," and appends the three new songs plus the "Home to Us – Flip Mix" as the closing track.

Rolling Stone's review called the album a "warm, nostalgic late-career masterpiece."

"There are several songs about his early years in Liverpool, including a good-old-days duet with his buddy Ringo Starr; the album's title references a street in the neighborhood where both he and George Harrison grew up," the review reads. "Overall, there's the sense of a legend looking back on a life well spent. This isn't necessarily a new theme for McCartney, who's been singing about what he once called his ever-present past for years now. But the autumnal vibe is more pronounced than ever, and there's an unusual poignance to songs like 'Days We Left Behind,' where he shuffles through some old black-and-white photos and finds only 'smoky bars and cheap guitars/But nothing built to last.'"

McCartney has described the record as rooted in memory. "This is very much a memory song for me. The album title … 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?" he said in a statement.

He traced the record directly to his childhood streets. "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," McCartney said. "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 special edition extends an album that already functions as McCartney's most explicit return to his Liverpool origins — the street of its title sits near where both he and Harrison grew up. With four added tracks, the release gives listeners the fullest version yet of the former Beatle's reckoning with what he once called his ever-present past.