{"id":2346639,"date":"2026-03-26T17:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2346639"},"modified":"2026-03-26T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:26:09","slug":"new-song-is-a-love-letter-to-liverpool-and-lennon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-song-is-a-love-letter-to-liverpool-and-lennon\/","title":{"rendered":"New song is a love letter to Liverpool \u2013 and Lennon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-test=\"article-body-text\">\n<p>McCartney sings about a city filled with \u201csmoky bars and cheap guitars\u201d, while his childhood home at Forthlin Road is where he and John Lennon \u201cmet\u201d and \u201cwrote a secret code\u201d. He foreshadows the different paths that he and most of his friends took with the line \u201cSome of [the boys] will feel the pain \/ But some were meant for more\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Although sung a few octaves higher, what <em>Days We Left Behind <\/em>actually brings to mind is Johnny Cash\u2019s late-career <em>American Recordings<\/em> series of albums. Like them, this is stripped-back, reflective, twilight-of-life music, and it\u2019s all the more moving for it.<\/p>\n<p>The single will be followed in May by <em>The Boys of Dungeon Lane<\/em>, McCartney\u2019s first album since 2020. Like the single, the album reflects Macca\u2019s life before Beatlemania changed everything. Dungeon Lane was a popular spot next to the Mersey where McCartney and pals would birdwatch and hang out; it now borders Liverpool\u2019s John Lennon Airport.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.telegraph.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCartney sings about a city filled with \u201csmoky bars and cheap guitars\u201d, while his childhood home at Forthlin Road is where he and John Lennon \u201cmet\u201d and \u201cwrote a secret code\u201d. He foreshadows the different paths that he and most of his friends took with the line \u201cSome of [the boys] will feel the pain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2346640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[22221,344803,48034,21800,25403,350906,32894,382398],"class_list":["post-2346639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-culture","tag-john-lennon","tag-liverpool","tag-music","tag-paul-mccartney","tag-review","tag-the-beatles","tag-us-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/New-song-is-a-love-letter-to-Liverpool-\u2013-and.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346641,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346639\/revisions\/2346641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2346640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}