In a recent Tuesday Trio, I wrote about introspection, and quoted Ian Leslie:

I’m often struck by how many high achievers are unencumbered by self-reflection. To take an example close to home, I’ve read or watched countless interviews with Paul McCartney, and he is at his least interesting on the topic of Paul McCartney. It isn’t that he doesn’t have a rich inner life. It’s that he puts it into his work – into the songs. His therapist is his guitar.

I think this a key to some of the problems Walter Martin has with McCartney’s work that he and I discussed on his radio show. Walter and I both grew up Lennon worshippers, so we got together to talk about our mixed feelings of admiration and bewilderment concerning Mr. McCartney and Morgan Neville’s new documentary, Man on the Run.

After we talked, I wrote a whole letter about McCartney’s creativity in 3 photographs, and included this chart of my ongoing relationship with the Beatles’ music:

There really is no in between for me. I’m either all in, or all out, which is why any new Beatles book, any new Beatles movie, any new Beatles anything has the ability to send me down the Beatles hole.