"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.

Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Paul McCartney surprised fans with a pop-up New York City performance on Tuesday. The iconic musician and former member of The Beatles announced "Paul McCartney Rocks the Bowery" hours before he was to take the Bowery Ballroom stage. Fans snatched up all available tickets in under an hour, CBS News reports.

And when that ticket gets you into a 575-capacity venue in New York City to see Sir Paul McCartney? Well, it just might be the deal of a lifetime. Midday Tuesday (Feb. 11), it was revealed that the Beatle would perform a last-minute underplay at Manhattan's peerless Bowery Ballroom that very evening – with tickets only available at the box office.