Mal Evans
Musical Artist
1935 – 1976
Who was Mal Evans?
Malcolm Frederick "Mal" Evans was best known as the road manager, assistant, and a friend of the Beatles.
In the early 1960s, Evans was employed as a telephone engineer, and also worked part-time as a bouncer at the Cavern Club. The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, later hired Evans as the group's assistant road manager, in tandem with Neil Aspinall. Peter Brown later wrote that Evans was "a kindly, but menacing-looking young man". Evans contributed to recordings, and appeared in some of the films the group made. After The Beatles stopped touring in 1966, Evans carried on assisting them until their break-up in 1970. From 1969, Evans also found work as a record producer.
Evans was killed by police on 5 January 1976, at his home in Los Angeles. Officers were called when his girlfriend phoned the police and told them that Evans was confused and had a gun. The police believed that the air rifle Evans was holding was a rifle and shot him dead.
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- Born
- May 27, 1935
Liverpool - Also known as
- Malcolm Evans
- Evans, Malcolm
- The Beatles Shadow
- The Gentle Giant
- Malcolm Frederick Evans
- The Plastic Ono Band
- Plastic Ono Band
- Big
- Spouses
- Lily Evans
(1961 - 1976/01/05)
- Lily Evans
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Employment
- Personal assistant
- Lived in
- Liverpool
- Died
- Jan 5, 1976
Los Angeles
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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