"“Ringo went round to the studio and drummed a bit,” McCartney shared. “I said to Andrew, we should make a track and send it to him. So this song is done totally with Ringo in mind. In writing the song I'm talking about where we came from. In common with a lot of people, you come from nothing and you build yourself up. Ringo was from the Dingle, and that was well hard. He said he used to get mugged coming home, because he worked. Even though it was crazy, it was home to us.”"
"“I made the song around that idea and sent it to Ringo,” McCartney continued. “He sent me back a version where he just added some lines to the chorus, so I thought, maybe he doesn't like it. I rang him and he said he thought I only wanted him to sing one or two lines, and I said I'd love to hear him sing the whole thing. So we took my first line, Ringo's second line, and then we had a duet. We'd never done that before.”"
"“Then we wanted some backing vocals and I had the idea it”"
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr collaborate on “Home to Us,” their first duet, appearing on McCartney’s upcoming album The Boys of Dungeon Lane. McCartney describes a misunderstanding involving Ringo Starr and producer Andrew Watt that left Starr upset, but Starr’s contribution was reshaped into a song about growing up in Liverpool. McCartney also sent Starr a demo, and Starr initially recorded only vocals for the chorus. McCartney assumed Starr disliked the song, but they cleared up the confusion and Starr returned to record more drums. McCartney says the track was written with Starr in mind, reflecting hardship and building a life from nothing.
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