In Popular Culture
See also: List of people from El Paso, Texas- "El Paso" by Marty Robbins was a popular Country ballad released in 1959. Robbins followed it up with a sequel, "El Paso City," in 1976.
- Fleetwood Mac held their first concert that featured Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham in El Paso in 1975. Stevie Nicks attended Loretto Academy and Bassett Junior High in El Paso as a teenager.
- "Take The Money and Run" – a hit song by the Steve Miller Band – tells the story of two bandits who "go down to old El Paso" and "ran into a great big hassle."
- The current Blue Beetle comic book series takes place in El Paso.
- El Paso has become a favored destination for musicians of all stripes. See Vanity Fair's March 2009 article.
- In Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, the penultimate mission is set in El Paso.
- The Chinga Chavin song "Asshole From El Paso" (most famously recorded by Kinky Friedman), a parody of Merle Haggard's "Okie from Muskogee", mentions El Paso in both the lyrics and the title.
- American artist Tori Amos references El Paso in her song, "Mother Revolution," featured on 2005's The Beekeeper.
- In the film For a Few Dollars More, a bank in El Paso is robbed.
- In the second season of Breaking Bad, DEA Agent Hank Schrader is transferred from his office in Albuquerque to the headquarters in El Paso.
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