There’s a question I’ve always wanted to ask musicians, famous ones like Paul McCartney in particular: When in the car, do they listen to their own songs when they come on the radio? Do they turn the volume up?
Since the odds of ever posing the question to McCartney or someone like him are slim, I’ll settle for a parallel answer found in Calvin Trillin’s excellent new book, The Lede: Dispatches From a Life In the Press. In it the longtime staff writer for The New Yorker references an article from the magazine on E.B. White. It seems that “during his final illness, even White, a man widely admired for his modesty, wanted to hear only his own writing.” Question for McCartney et al answered. Along with so much more.
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