[UPDATED 6 May, 2026]

Since we posted about the new Paul McCartney solo release The Boys of Dungeon Lane there’s been some developments, mostly to do with new variations and vinyl colours being added.

As we did for McCartney III and it’s sibling McCartney III Imagined, we’ve started a chart showing all the known variations so far to help you keep up. We’ll add to this if any more come down the pipeline (which, given McCartney’s track record, is very likely).

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As of today a new, “extremely limited” silver vinyl has been added, making 11 vinyl colour variations so far. This is only to be sold in a limited number of US bricks and mortar record stores, on the release day of the album (May 29) and for the following two days. It comes with a fourth variation of the black and white portrait postcard included (see below). Customers, who have to show up in person at their participating store, will also get a Dungeon Lane tote bag plus entry into competition to win “a very special prize”.

A couple of weeks back a McCartney and UME Store exclusive with 180g black vinyl, gatefold blind-embossed cover artwork, full collage interior spread, and a 12-page lyric booklet was also added to the list, as was a cassette which comes with a fold-out print of the same collage.

Gotta admit, the collage looks great. It is screen‑printed and made from over 100 archive images, including previously unseen photography from Paul’s personal archive:

Along with the different cover art and vinyl colour variations, one other difficult thing emerging for the absolute completists (who must have everything in every permutation) is the different lyric cards to be included with some of the vinyl and some of the CDs.

So far there are 7 different cards: 3 collage lyric cards, and now 4 b&w portrait postcards.

In the green vinyl exclusive to the McCartney and Universal Music stores it is a green/purple collage card, while in the red vinyl – exclusive to larger chain stores – the card is an orange/red/blue colour with different images. It is also orange/red/blue in the Target exclusive CD, but it depicts a different collage of faces.

Then, in those releases that come with the portrait postcard, there are 4 different photos in use. One for the gold vinyl (exclusive to Barnes & Noble, and possibly Rough Trade UK – but this is still to be confirmed); one for the green cover CD (a McCartney Store/Universal Music exclusive); a third variation for the Walmart exclusive CD; and now a fourth iteration for the exclusive US launch-day silver vinyl just announced. We’ve tried to show these on the chart, but here they are side-by-side for comparison.

We’ll be updating this variations page and chart as soon as any more different colours or packaging is announced.