Paul McCartney, rumors: a tour of Europe later this year

On Friday and Saturday evening he performed for a few intimate guests at The Fonda Theater in Los Angeles, to celebrate the announcement of the new album “The boys of Dungeon Lane”, which will arrive in stores on May 29th. But according to some rumors Paul McCartney, who closed his “Got back tour” in the US last November, would be ready to announce a tour in Europe, two years after the previous one. The French newspaper Le Parisien reports the rumors, according to which the former Beatle is planning to do a European tour at the end of this year:

According to our sources, there should be a tour after the album’s release, with concerts in Europe at the end of 2026.

The 2024 tour made stops in Paris, Madrid, Manchester and London. Macca has been missing in Italy for thirteen years, as many as have passed since the show on 25 June 2013 at the Verona Arena, part of the “Out There!” tour. In 2020 the Liverpool baronet was supposed to return to perform in Italy, in Naples (in Piazza del Plebiscito) and in Lucca (under the Historic Walls), but the two shows were canceled due to the pandemic and never recovered.

And who knows whether the two shows on Friday and Saturday at The Fonda Theater in Los Angeles were a sort of preview of the tour that will keep him busy between 2026 and 2027. Macca opened the shows with “Help!” of the Beatles and in 23 songs he alternated songs taken from the legendary band’s repertoire, others from the Wings repertoire and others from his solo repertoire. Among others, he also performed “Blackbird”, “Let it be” and “Hey jude”.

Last Thursday, the single “Days we left behind” was a preview of the new album “The boys of Dungeon Lane”: «For me this song is truly a memory. The album’s title, “The Boys of Dungeon Lane”, comes from a line in this song. I was just thinking about this, about the days I’ve left behind, and I often wonder if I’m just writing about the past, but then I think: How can you write about anything else? It’s just so many memories of Liverpool. There’s a part in the middle that’s about John and Forthlin Road, the street I lived on. Dungeon Lane is nearby. I lived in a place called Speke, which was quite a working-class neighbourhood. We had almost nothing, but it didn’t matter because the people were amazing and you didn’t realize you didn’t have much.”