We were just children,” Paul McCartney mused, around the midpoint of his secret Bowery Ballroom show last night. He was telling of the Beatles’ earliest years in America, when they famously refused to play a segregated show in 1964 in Jacksonville.

Eager music fans waited outside the Bowery Ballroom in New York on Wednesday, February 12, to catch a glimpse of Paul McCartney amid a series of surprise gigs the musician has staged at the venue. Footage from Mauro Carignano shows McCartney greeting fans on Wednesday as he entered the relatively intimate club,

Following his sold-out show in New York City, Paul McCartney announced a second Bowery Ballroom show at the venue, which also sold out and broke out surprises in the setlist. The first surprise was “Flaming Pie,