Flowers in the Dirt, newly rereleased, is Paul at his mature best. Unlike John Lennon, the chronic oversharer avant la lettre, Paul McCartney has always been guarded about his interior life ...
In this quarter, a touch more of 1989’s Flowers in the Dirt wouldn’t go amiss ... powering down or simply fading away, Paul McCartney is looking ever more like the last great Sixties showman.