Mal Evans

Mal Evans (born May 27, 1935 in Liverpool , Great Britain , † January 5, 1976 in Los Angeles , USA ) was known as the assistant and road manager of the Beatles .

Evans met George Harrison in the early 1960s during a three-month engagement at the Cavern Club in Liverpool . He was first hired as a doorman and then as a road manager and bodyguard for the Beatles. He held this position until the band split up in 1970.

He shared an apartment on Sloane Street for a while with Neil Aspinall , assistant to the Beatles.

Evans produced first solo album Two Sides of the Moon of Keith Moon , was at Helter Skelter involved and is in the original recording of A Day in the Life heard. He was also in the Beatles films Help! , See Magical Mystery Tour, and Let It Be .

After his marriage failed, he got into a personal crisis. On January 5, 1976, apparently under the influence of drugs , he threatened suicide . A friend called the police. Evans had a gun in hand. When he directed it at a police officer, he was shot.

Mal Evans was married with two children.

Individual evidence

^ Brian Roylance, Nicky Page, Derek Taylor : The Beatles Anthology. (Chronicle Books, San Francisco 2000). German translation: Ullstein, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 241.

personal data
SURNAME	Evans, Mal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British road manager with the Beatles
DATE OF BIRTH	May 27, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Great Britain
DATE OF DEATH	5th January 1976
Place of death	Los Angeles , USA

[1] Brian Roylance, Nicky Page, Derek Taylor : The Beatles Anthology. (Chronicle Books, San Francisco 2000). German translation: Ullstein, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 241.