Meeting Elvis was ‘my biggest day with the Beatles’, says road manager’s book
Summary
Mal Evans’s 95,000-word memoir, based on his diaries and recordings, will be published for the first time in December under the title *With the Beatles*. Evans, the Beatles’ road manager, recounts the band’s career and describes their 1965 meeting with Elvis Presley as the greatest day of his time with the group.Key Facts
- Evans worked with the Beatles from their early days at Liverpool’s Cavern Club, where he had been a bouncer.
- He kept diaries and notebooks, took photographs, and collected lyric sheets and other items from the band’s tours and studio work.
- Evans dictated material for the memoir in 1975 and hired a stenographer to help prepare it.
- His family made the memoir materials available to Beatles author Kenneth Womack.
- The memoir follows the Beatles from the *Help!* album through their later studio years.
- Evans wrote that Elvis played Beatles records during their meeting at his Bel Air home in August 1965, then found guitars for the group.
- The memoir includes Evans’s account of the Beatles’ 1966 tour of the Philippines and the reaction after they declined an invitation to an event with Imelda Marcos.
- Evans died in 1976, aged 40, after Los Angeles police shot him during an incident involving an air rifle.
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