"Hey, that was a Beatles scream!" Paul McCartney said, responding to a female audience member's shriek midway through his exuberant set at New York's Bowery Ballroom on Tuesday night. "Okay girls, let's get it over with: Let's hear your Beatles screams.

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