Tom Dunne: Mal Evans, the Beatles' roadie who died in a hail of bullets
Mal Evans driving The Beatles in 1967. (Photo by Clive Limpkin/Daily Express/Getty Images)
Mal Evans was The Beatles’ roadie. He was the tall amiable man you may have seen hovering around Paul McCartney in Peter Jackson’s Get Back film. Gentle, helpful and obliging, at times it seemed Macca was singing just for him. And at times, well he was.
Those sessions were recorded at the halfway point in Mal’s Beatles life. Seven years earlier he had discovered them on a lunchtime break from work. Seven years later he would die in a hail of LA police bullets. It is a remarkable story by any measure.
