FeedMedia: Apparently, that really was Sir Paul hangin’ out in Springfield
August 9, 2008 in Local Tags: Paul McCartney, springfield
Anyone catch the report in the Springfield Journal-Register about how Paul McCartney was spotted in Springfield at a Circle K gas station, driving a 1989 Ford Bronco.
Hell, he posed for photographs. But I thought it was a lookalike, and the newspaper the victim of a pretty good prank.
Apparently not:
Former Beatle Paul McCartney and girlfriend Nancy Shevell made Oklahoma City one of their stops on a cross-country tour along famous old U.S. Route 66. They’re driving a 1989 Ford Bronco.
They spent the night Tuesday at the downtown Skirvin Hilton Hotel and dined at Nonna’s Euro-American Ristorante and Bar in the Bricktown entertainment district, restaurant employees told the Oklahoman for a story on the paper’s Web site.
And:
McCartney and Shevell began their journey from his holiday home in the Hamptons, N.Y., on July 31, picking up the old Route 66 in Illinois on a vacation trip that will take them to Santa Monica, Calif.
I knew it was him all along.
I mean, how cool is this! The world’s greatest living rock star is traveling across the United States in a 20-year-old car, buying Big Gulps at the Circle K and eating at local joints he and his girlfriend find along the way. You just know there’s gonna be a song or two out of this.
Damn! Paul McCartney! At the Circle K!
The biggest celebrity I ever met was the guy who plays Roman Brady on “Days of our Lives.” Yeah, I can’t think of his name either, even though he was also on “The Hogan Family.”
August 9th, 2008 at 6:59 am
The guy you’re thinking of is Josh Taylor, a native of Chillicothe. He played a completely different “Days” character, Chris Kostichek, back in the early 80s.
August 9th, 2008 at 8:02 am
I met and had beers with Alice Cooper while living in Hawaii. Still, I can’t believe a millionaire would be slumming across the conutry in a Ford Bronco.
August 9th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Hey, this is the guy who schelped around NYC incogito with Linda Eastman, whom he later married. Sounds like something Sir Paul would do.
August 9th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Hopefully someone will post some of their photos somewhere.
August 9th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Hopefully he gets his mojo back and puts out some decent music.
August 10th, 2008 at 12:29 am
One does not “pick up Route 66 in Illinois”. Route 66 eastern terminus is Michigan Avenue and Jackson @ Grant Park from the West in Chicago or starts at Art Insitute at Michigan Ave and Adams heading west for 2,479 miles ending at Santa Monica Blvd and Ocean Drive in Santa Monica, Ca. Anyone that describess that journey as slumming has never experienced the joy of the Mother road. Having done it three times on my Harley (every 5 years), last year with a friend who is now dead, the memories of the Mom and Pop retaurants and motels, the gas stations and other remanants of the Main Street across America make the journey the perfect vacation. I am sure Sir Paul will be inspired and I hope he creates some music to capture the magic he and his girlfriend are experiencing along the way.
August 10th, 2008 at 9:02 am
He actually did start in Chicago.