Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This “I do often wonder if I’m just writing about the past,” Paul McCartney has said of his new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane. “But then I think, how can you write about anything else?” Yes, one of the greatest living songwriters is certainly in a nostalgic mood on his 20th solo album. Inspired by a childhood spent growing up in postwar Liverpool, along with his earliest days knocking about with Beatles bandmates Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison, this is a lovely addition to an astonishing and varied career. Not to mention, one of his most insightful records. There’s less of the technical showmanship we heard on 2020’s McCartney III, which opened with an extraordinary display of blues guitarmanship on “Long Tailed Winter Bird”. But with help from 35-year-old producer Andrew Watt (whose other recent credits include the Stones, Elton John …