The year is 1969. The Southern Arizona desert is hot as ever. Fringe bangs, shaggy mullets and hangouts at the Tucson Mall are all the rage.

“Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner,” sings Paul McCartney on “Get Back,” the Beatles single that shot to No. 1 in April 1969.

“Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona; For some California grass,” goes the last two lines of that first verse. Then comes the iconic chorus: “Get back, get back. Get back to where you once belonged.”

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It wasn’t the first time the city found its way into a lyric, and it wouldn’t be the last. In 1959, Johnny Cash sang about Tombstone: “Out in Arizona, just south of Tucson; Where tumbleweeds tumble in search o

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