Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunite on new Beatles-like duet track

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are back in the same song frame, and Starr is not there as a ceremonial cameo. On “Home To Us,” the track at the center of McCartney’s new album The Boys Of Dungeon Lane, Starr sings line by line with McCartney and plays drums, putting the Beatles’ old rhythmic chemistry back into active service.

The album is set for release on May 29, 2026, and McCartney’s official site calls it his first new solo album in more than five years. His store also bills it as his 18th solo album, which gives the project real weight before a note is even played. For drummers, the big news is simple: Starr’s touch still matters enough for McCartney to build one of the record’s key songs around it.

“Home To Us” has been described as echoing the classic Beatles sound, but the story behind it is less polished than that phrase suggests. McCartney said the track took shape through misunderstandings and late changes, then shifted toward childhood memories in Liverpool. That matters because it suggests the song was not built as nostalgia bait. It evolved into something more personal, with Starr’s drum part helping steady the emotional center rather than just decorating it.

McCartney also previewed the album for about 30 to 40 fans at Andrew Watt’s Diamond Dust studio in Los Angeles, walking them through the record track by track. Putting the Ringo duet in that kind of close-up setting signals confidence. This was not a casual rollout. McCartney treated the song as one of the album’s defining moments, the sort of track that tells listeners what kind of record this is before it lands in full.

Starr’s presence still resonates because he is not simply a surviving Beatle on paper. Born in Liverpool on July 7, 1940, he has long been recognized as the Beatles’ drummer, and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame calls him a role model for generations of drummers. His recent return to new Beatles-related music is not isolated either. He also recorded new drums for the 2023 Beatles single “Now and Then,” which used guitar parts George Harrison laid down in 1995.

That is why “Home To Us” stands out. It is a new McCartney track with Starr at the kit, not an archive exercise, not a tribute lap, and not a footnote. More than 50 years after the Beatles ended, the McCartney-Starr pulse still has enough pull to shape a brand-new song.