Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
A new collaboration rooted in Liverpool beginnings, lifelong friendship, and the shared history of two of popular music’s most enduring voices.
May 9, 2026 — Aspen, CO — Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have released Home to Us, the first officially issued recording to feature the two artists sharing lead vocals across an entire song together. The single arrives as part of McCartney’s forthcoming album The Boys of Dungeon Lane and marks a significant new chapter in one of modern music’s most historic creative relationships. More than six decades after first changing the course of popular culture together, McCartney and Starr continue to find new ways to speak in harmony.
According to archival notes collected by The Paul McCartney Project, the song began during an informal studio session between Starr and producer Andrew Watt. What initially existed as a rhythmic foundation and spontaneous musical idea developed further once McCartney heard the early recording and began writing around it. A contribution first imagined as a guest appearance gradually expanded into a complete vocal exchange, with the two artists alternating lines and building the piece into a true duet.
That organic origin is audible throughout the finished track. Home to Us carries the ease of something discovered rather than overdesigned. Built on melodic warmth, gentle rhythmic momentum, and an understated sense of intimacy, the recording allows both voices to move naturally beside one another. McCartney’s melodic instinct and Starr’s instantly recognizable phrasing create a balance that feels effortless, shaped by familiarity rather than calculation.
At its emotional center, Home to Us reflects on the pair’s early lives in Liverpool and the complicated affection people maintain for the places that formed them. McCartney has described the song as drawing from modest neighborhoods that could be rough, unpredictable, and difficult, yet remained deeply meaningful because they were home. In that sense, the track is not simply nostalgic. It is about perspective—how time can transform hardship into context, and memory into gratitude.
The song also serves as a portrait of working-class beginnings that preceded international fame. Before stadiums, honors, and global recognition, there were streets, families, local rhythms, and communities that shaped character. Home to Us revisits that emotional geography with maturity, acknowledging both struggle and tenderness without romanticizing either. It is a reminder that origin stories are rarely polished while they are being lived.
Additional backing vocals from Chrissie Hynde and Sharleen Spiteri add further texture to the recording, widening its communal atmosphere while preserving the intimacy at its core. Their presence subtly reinforces the song’s themes of connection, shared memory, and collective voice.
Home to Us also offers an early glimpse into The Boys of Dungeon Lane, a forthcoming McCartney project described as one of his most personal recent works. The album is said to draw deeply from post-war Liverpool, family life, formative friendships, and the emotional landscape of the years before worldwide acclaim. If Home to Us is any indication, the record will explore not only biography, but the inner architecture of memory itself.
For listeners around the world, the release represents more than a historic collaboration between two beloved artists. It stands as evidence that creative bonds can continue to evolve, deepen, and surprise. Few partnerships in music history have carried such cultural weight, yet what gives Home to Us its power is something quieter: two old friends singing not about legend, but about where they came from.
In an era often defined by spectacle, Home to Us chooses warmth over grandeur and reflection over mythology. Its emotional force comes not from scale, but sincerity. Even after decades of achievement, some of the most resonant stories still lead back to where they began.
Availability
Home to Us is available now through major streaming platforms and official artist channels.
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