question: "Dear Boy" is a song from a Paul McCartney album released in which year?
answer: 1971
context: Title: Girlfriend (Paul McCartney song)
  Passage: "Girlfriend" is a song written by Paul McCartney.  McCartney thought of the song as one that Michael Jackson might like to record, and mentioned this to Jackson at a party in Hollywood.  Jackson had stated in interviews with the music press in the 1970s that he was a fan of The Beatles and the chance to record a McCartney original helped to inspire his next project.  However, McCartney ended up recording it himself with his band Wings, and it was issued in 1978 on the album "London Town".  Subsequently, it was suggested by Quincy Jones as a possible track for Jackson to record for his 1979 album "Off the Wall".  Jones was unaware that the song had been written for Jackson in the first place.  Jackson's recording omitted the middle eight heard in McCartney's version.  It was issued exclusively in the UK in 1980, as the fifth and final single from the "Off the Wall" album.  This proved to be another hit single for Jackson and one of his first recordings of a Paul McCartney song.
  Title: Roman (My Dear Boy)
  Passage: "Roman (My Dear Boy)" (浪漫 〜MY DEAR BOY〜 , "Romance (My Dear Boy)") is the twenty-second single of idol group Morning Musume and was released May 12, 2004.  It sold a total of 87,255 copies.  The single peaked at #4 on the weekly Oricon charts, charting for six weeks.
  Title: Bad to Me
  Passage: "Bad to Me" is a song credited to Lennon–McCartney.  In late interviews, John Lennon said that he wrote it for Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas while on holiday in Spain.  However, in a 1964 interview he said that he and Paul McCartney wrote it in the back of a van, so Paul contributed to it.  Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas released their recording of the song in 1963 and it became their first number 1 in the UK Singles Chart.  Paul McCartney was present during the recording session at Abbey Road Studios.  The single would be released in the US the following year, and become a top-ten hit there, reaching number 9.  It became one of the first occasions a Lennon–McCartney composition made the US Top 40 recorded by an artist other than the Beatles (the first being "A World Without Love" by Peter & Gordon; another being "Goodbye" by Mary Hopkin).
  Title: Dear Boy (song)
  Passage: "Dear Boy" is a song from the Paul McCartney album "Ram".  Credited to Paul and Linda McCartney, the song was written during the couple's lengthy holiday on their farm in the Mull of Kintyre.  The lyrics were written by Paul about how lucky he was to have Linda.
  Title: She's My Baby (Wings song)
  Passage: "She's My Baby" is a song credited to Paul and Linda McCartney that was first released by Wings on their 1976 album "Wings at the Speed of Sound".  It is a love song sung by Paul directed at Linda.  Critical opinion of the song has ranged from a description as Paul McCartney's "sweetest, daftest love song" to a suggestion that it deserves an "honor for sheer awfulness."  In 1998, after Linda's death, Paul McCartney rearranged the song for string quartet to be played at memorial concerts for his late wife.  This version was included on the 1999 album "Working Classical".
  Title: McCartney II
  Passage: McCartney II is the second completely solo studio album by Paul McCartney, and the first since the formation of Wings in 1971.  It was released in 1980, a year before the band's dissolution and while their future lay in limbo.  The album is a significant departure for McCartney, as much of it relies heavily on synthesizers and studio experimentation.  It was reissued on 13 June 2011 as part of the "Paul McCartney Archive Collection".  The album remains a cult favourite.
  Title: Ram (album)
  Passage: Ram is a studio album by Paul and Linda McCartney, released in May 1971 on Apple Records.  The album was recorded amid Paul McCartney's legal action in the United Kingdom's High Court to dissolve the Beatles' partnership, following the band's break-up the year before.  It is the only album credited to the couple.  He and Linda recorded it in New York with guitarists David Spinozza and Hugh McCracken, and future Wings drummer Denny Seiwell.  Its release coincided with a period of bitter acrimony between McCartney and his former bandmate John Lennon, who perceived verbal slights in the lyrics to songs such as "Too Many People".
  Title: Return to Pepperland
  Passage: Return to Pepperland is a cancelled Paul McCartney album recorded in 1984–1987.  The album was built up of mostly home demos and was a reflection of work from McCartney's career as a member of the English rock band the Beatles.  Although it was made around twenty years after the release of the Beatles' 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (which inspired it), some tracks which made their way onto the bootleg were written whilst McCartney was in the Beatles, including the Lennon–McCartney-written "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You".  Other songs turned up on CD-single B-sides including the McCartney/Stewart song "Don't Break the Promise".
  Title: David Cloyd
  Passage: David Cloyd (born 1974) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and music engineer.  After playing for a decade in Brooklyn, New York in the indie rock scene, he was signed to ECR Music Group in 2008.  He released his debut album as a singer-songwriter with "Unhand Me, You Fiend! " in 2009.  The album peaked at #1 on eMusic's Album Charts, and according to a review, "took the indie rock scene by storm."  His second album, "I Could Disappear", included solo versions of his debut album, with Cloyd on vocals, piano, and guitar.  Cloyd released a cover of Paul McCartney's 1971 song "Dear Boy" in September 2011.  As of 2012, he is Executive Vice President of Creative Operations at ECR Music Group.
  Title: Tug of War (Paul McCartney album)
  Passage: Tug of War is the third solo studio album by Paul McCartney, released in April 1982.  It was McCartney's first album released after the dissolution of Wings in April, 1981 and McCartney's first album after the murder of former songwriting partner John Lennon.  The album was produced by former Beatles producer George Martin and was a number 1 hit in numerous countries.  It was hailed as a return-to-form for McCartney upon release.  Its remastered deluxe edition received a nomination for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package at the 2017 Grammy Awards.
citations: Ram (album) Dear Boy (song)