The legendary Paul McCartney was recently spotted along the Arkansas River in Tulsa, Oklahoma, casually hanging out beneath a random overpass. In the delightfully offbeat video that’s been making the rounds online, McCartney cheerfully pans his camera around the scene.
The 82-year-old icon seems genuinely amused by the surroundings, the concrete pillars, sunlight glinting off the river, and what he lovingly refers to as “the usual graffiti.”
Tulsa has been a familiar stop for McCartney in recent years — he’s performed multiple shows at the city’s BOK Center and maintains ties to the local music scene through his friendship with members of the Tulsa-based band of his late friend and collaborator, guitarist James Burton.
Paul McCartney has been embracing nostalgia on his latest North American trek, Got Back Tour. He has memorialized his late bandmates, reminisced about hearing Jimi Hendrix perform at a small London club.
The talented musicians made a medley by tacking on a partial cover of the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s “Foxy Lady,” which led into McCartney sharing the time he was “lucky enough” to witness “great guy” Hendrix and his band’s live UK debut in 1966, at the Bag O’Nails Club in London.
Throughout the show, McCartney’s production team also mashed up a slew of vintage photos and video clips on the high-definition video screens, to help bring Ringo Starr as well as the late John Lennon and George Harrison to Tulsa, too.
The 19-date arena and stadium tour is the living legend’s first extensive series of shows across the U.S. and Canada since 2022. He played Oklahoma on Wednesday, October 22nd, at Tulsa’s BOK Center, which was packed with an estimated 15,000 fans.
McCartney and his longtime band, accompanied by the truly sizzling Hot City Horns, treated the enthusiastic audience to a nearly three-hour, 35-song set that spanned his almost seven-decade music career.
He previously played the Tulsa venue in 2009 and 2013 and the downtown Oklahoma City arena now known as Paycom Center in 2017 and 2002.
