From posts on Facebook and other social media sites, we know that several folks from the Twin Cities were in North Little Rock over the weekend to hear rock legend Sir Paul McCartney perform in concert.
The former Beatle brought his show Saturday evening to a sold-out Verizon Arena.
By all accounts it was a great show and we're sure everyone had a fine time. But most were probably unaware of something very special that happened that night.
Back in 1968, the Beatles released their eponymous double album, which has come to be known as "The White Album." One of the tracks was a song written and performed by McCartney called "Blackbird."
The song was about race relations in the U.S. and was largely inspired by the Little Rock Nine-a group of African-American students whose attempt to integrate the city's Central High School in 1957 was met with angry crowds and armed resistance from the state.
McCartney acknowledged the inspiration onstage Saturday night before he performed the song. And that night he was able to meet two of his muses for the song.
Two of the Little Rock Nine-Elizabeth Eckford and Thelma Mothershed Wair were at the concert. They were introduced to McCartney backstage and he posed for photos with the two ladies.
"Incredible to meet two of the Little Rock Nine-pioneers of the civil rights movement and inspiration for Blackbird," he wrote later on Twitter.
More than 13,000 people got to see their musical hero Saturday in Little Rock.
And he got to meet a couple of his own heroes.