Paul At Pepe's: Knighted Beatle Sir McCartney Made Pizza Pilgrimage

NEW HAVEN, CT —After an appearance at Yale's Schwartzman Center last week to celebrate his new book, Sir Paul McCartney made a pizza pit stop at the legendary Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana on Wooster Street.

In a photo posted to Facebook by Dave Schneider of THE ZAMBONIS, the knighted Beatle can be seen inside the iconic pizzeria.

One fan who commented on Schneider's post said what many New Haveners were thinking.

"Just goes to show we have the best pizza."

When Yale announced the visit from McCartney, the University's online ticket system crashed.

"The extraordinarily high demand for tickets to “The Lyrics: Paul McCartney in Conversation” resulted in our ticketing system, Yale Connect, shutting down shortly after 10am, Wednesday 2/8. To those attempting to register, we extend our sincere apologies for the frustration this issue has caused," the message on the Schwarzman Center site read.

McCartney was at Yale for a conversation with editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon and the Neil Gray Jr. Professor of English at Yale Langdon Hammer about his book, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present.

The Lyrics encompasses McCartney's earliest boyhood compositions through the legendary decade of The Beatles, to Wings and his solo albums to the present. Arranged alphabetically to provide a kaleidoscopic rather than chronological account, it establishes definitive texts of the songs’ lyrics for the first time and describes the circumstances in which they were written, the people and places that inspired them, and what he thinks of them now.