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B RITISH pop legend and former Beatles member Paul McCartney has released a new single and announced his first album in over five years, examining his life in Liverpool before global stardom. The 83-year-old, one of the most successful artistes of all time, announced the 14-track album titled The Boys of Dungeon Lane , taking listeners on a trip down memory lane in the northern English city. It will include early adventures with his late bandmates George

Former Beatles bassist releases new record

which the songwriter described as a “memory song” that inspired the album title. The record will also feature new love songs and memories of life before the Beatles. “I do often wonder if I’m just writing about the past but then I think how can you write about anything else? It’s just a lot of memories of Liverpool. “We didn’t have much at all but it didn’t matter because all the people were great and you didn’t notice you didn’t have much,” McCartney said in a statement on his website. McCartney kicked off two live performances in Los Angeles last weekend, his first since the November 2025 finale of his over three-year-long Got Back Tour. Formed in 1960, the Beatles – McCartney, Lennon, Harrison and Ringo Starr – went on to become the best-selling musical act of all time. McCartney wrote or partnered with Lennon to write many of their biggest hits, including Yesterday , Hey Jude , Let It Be and Yellow Submarine . Following the band’s split in 1970, the Beatles bassist continued writing and performing with hits, including Maybe I’m Amazed , Live and Let Die and Band on the Run . – AFP

o Paul McCartney recalls Yesterday with first album in five years Harrison and John Lennon, prior to Beatles fame, according to the singer’s website. “ The Boys of Dungeon Lane is his most introspective album to date and takes the listener back to where it all began,” McCartney’s website stated. McCartney named the album, which will be released on May 29, after Dungeon Lane, a place close to his childhood home in the Liverpool suburb of Speke. It is referenced in the newly released single Days We Left Behind ,

The upcoming album of McCartney is scheduled to be released on May 29 and will take listeners back to where it all began.

McCartney releases Days We Left Behind from his 19th solo studio album. – PICS FROM INSTAGRAM @PAULMCCARTNEY

Ryan Gosling wants to make cinema worthy movies AS Hollywood grapples with existential questions and fickle audiences, one of its top stars Ryan Gosling has a simple credo. in a few less-than-stellar films, such as 2024’s loss-maker The Fall Guy and 2022’s Netflix thriller The Gray Man , which got big viewer numbers but a poor critical reception.

Gosling attends Project Hail Mary premiere at Lincoln Centre recently in New York City. – PIC FROM GETTY IMAGES VIA AFP

a dramatic comedy – “felt like something I really wanted to make for my kids and hopefully for their generation”. Gosling also reflected on his three-decade trajectory in Hollywood, which has seen him rise to the top tier of actors – and as displayed in Barbie , show off his long-hidden comedy chops. “It took me a while to realise that I could do things the way I wanted to,” he said. He started out in dramatic roles in serious independent films in which there “was really the unspoken rule that nothing funny can happen”. Now however, he feels the door has opened to roles offering wider range. Christopher Miller, who directed Project Hail Mary with longtime collaborator Phil Lord, said Gosling aptly married drama and comedy in the film. “Few people can pull it off also, can make you laugh and cry at the same scene and moment. It’s hard to think of other people who could have done what Ryan did in this movie and do it in a way that feels authentic and true,” he said. – AFP See also page 25

“In this stage of my life, if I’m going to make films, I want it to be a film that is worth going to the theatre to see,” the Canadian actor told journalists in Paris recently. The comment was made as part of a globetrotting publicity tour for his latest movie Project Hail Mary – but it could be read as part of the debate over the future of cinema. The film is a sci-fi adventure about an astronaut who awakens on a spaceship with a mission to save the Earth from a sun-dimming phenomenon. Soon, he realises he is not alone in his quest, but has to work as a team with an alien he names Rocky. Back on our real planet Earth, Hollywood is experiencing its own gloom, as industry layoffs accelerate, productions shift away from California and streaming platforms eat into box office revenues. The heroes it sends out to restore the shine are A-listers like Gosling, who proved more than up to the task in Barbie , Blade Runner 2049 and La La Land . But the 45-year-old has also been

Project Hail Mary , which Gosling co-produced under a first-look deal with Amazon MGM Studios, has him carrying most of the story solo in front of the camera – along with the VFX alien Rocky, of course. The movie is an adaptation of a novel by Andy Weir, who wrote The Martian , about another solo astronaut overcoming hardships. That became a 2015 film starring Matt Damon. Comedy chops Gosling plays a not-especially-brave science teacher who has to rely on his knowhow as he pieces together his memory and builds an alliance with Rocky. “I felt appropriately intimidated by the challenge. I was really moved by Weir’s point of view or this lens that he looks at the world through, where he gives you this opportunity to pivot away from fear and to maybe approach fear with curiosity, and to say maybe the future isn’t something to be afraid of, but just to be figured out,” Gosling said. The actor added that the movie –