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Chris Willman
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Dave Benett/Getty Images Taylor Swift is famous for her “Secret Sessions,” where, for most of her albums of the pre-COVID era, she invited a few dozen select fans to sit in a living room and be the first to experience a new album and hear her stories about how she wrote and recorded each song. Paul McCartney might have seemed like a less likely candidate to give fans that severe a level of intimacy in unveiling a new album, but he did just that Thursday night, as his team invited between 30-40 fans to hear his forthcoming “The Boys of Dungeon Lane” album at Andrew Watt‘s L.A.-area studio. Invitees were hoping and suspecting McCartney might pop in for a wave or a comment before or after the listening session. Few guessed they would be spending an hour and 40 minutes with the man himself — with Watt as a gleeful but mostly silent bystander — as the former Beatle shared fairly detailed musical and lyrical insights into all 14 tracks from his first album in six years.
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