"We had a blast-and you were the blasters!," Paul McCartney told the crowd at the end of his surprise Tuesday show at New York City. McCartney played a spontaneous gig at the Bowery Ballroom, a beloved rock bar on the Lower East Side that holds only 575 people.

Beatlemania hit the streets of Manhattan as fans sprinted to the box office in the hope of nabbing a ticket to the rare and intimate show, announced just hours before it began