Paul McCartney - Ripples in a Pond
Song Exploder
Hrishikesh Hirway
4.8 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Paul McCartney is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer whose career spans more than six decades. As a member of The Beatles and later Wings and then with his own solo albums, he’s simply one of the most influential artists of all time. He has more accolades than I have time to list in this intro. But if you’re listening to this, you already know all that. In May 2026, he released his twentieth solo album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane. He co-produced it with Andrew Watt, who won the 2021 Grammy for Producer of the Year, and whose credits include working with Lady Gaga, The Rolling Stones, Justin Bieber, and Elton John. For this episode, I spoke to Paul McCartney about how he wrote and recorded his song "Ripples in a Pond."
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Rishi Kesh Hirway. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm going to be on tour for the next few weeks, and all the dates are at songexploder.net slash live. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm going to be playing songs from my new album in the last hour of light with a full band, and I'm going to be talking about the making of my album with a special guest moderator in each city. I get to be the interviewee instead of the interviewer. So I'm going to be joined by Jason Mansuchus, Samin Nosrat, Alison Russell, Joshua Molina, Ken Jennings and John Roderick, Minjin Lee, and Adam Scott. |
| 0:38.1 | It's a really personal album, and I hope you can make it out to one of the shows. |
| 0:41.6 | You can get tickets and more info at songexploder.net slash live. |
| 0:48.1 | Hi, Rishi. |
| 0:49.5 | Hi. So nice to meet you. |
| 0:51.4 | And is it pronounced Rishi? |
| 0:53.1 | Rishi, yes. |
| 0:54.0 | Rishi? Yes. The H is just there to meet you. And is it pronounced Rishi? Rishi, yes. Rishi. |
| 0:54.6 | Yes. |
| 0:55.1 | The H is just there to fool people. |
| 0:58.3 | Exactly. |
| 1:00.1 | Could you introduce yourself? |
| 1:02.5 | Hi, this is Paul McCartney, and I'm on Song Exploder. |
| 1:07.6 | Paul McCartney is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, whose career spans more than six decades, as a member of The Beatles and later Wings, and then his own solo albums. |
| 1:19.6 | He's simply one of the most influential artists of all time. He has more accolades than I have time to list in this intro, but if you're listening to this, |
| 1:34.9 | you already know all that. In May, 26, he released his 20th solo album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane. |
| 1:40.1 | He co-produced it with Andrew Watt, who won the 2021 Grammy for Producer of the Year, |
| 1:45.4 | and whose credits include working with Lady Gaga, The Rolling Stones, Justin Bieber, and Elton John. |
| 1:50.7 | For this episode, I spoke to Paul McCartney about his new song, Ripples in a Pond. |
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