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Living the Beatles Legend

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Kenneth Womack

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352pagine
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The first ever full biography of The Beatles' beloved friend, confidant, and roadie for the length of their duration as a band, Malcolm Evans. ?Long time roadie, personal assistant, and devoted friend, Malcolm Evans, or Mal, was an invaluable member of The Beatles' inner circle. The towering figure in horn-rimmed glasses, although seemingly invisible, looms larger in the Beatles story than many are aware. He contributed sounds, lyrical ideas and background music, helped collate images for the Sgt Pepper cover, was the only member of the inner group invited to Paul McCartney and Linda Eastman's wedding, and was present for that famous final live appearance of The Beatles on Apple Corps' rooftop.In Peter Jackson's Get Back documentary, you can spot Mal writing down the lyrics to John, Paul and George's new songs as they're composed on the spot. Leaving his job a telecommunications engineer for the General Post Office to become road manager for a fledgling band, Mal was the odd man out from the start. He was older, married with a family, had held a real 9-5 job, had no experience in the music business whatsoever, and towered above all of them. And yet, he was instantly devoted to this band he loved, eventually traveling all over the world and becoming their most intimate record keeper, secret keeper, schedule keeper.Much changed for Mal once the band split. Virtually abandoned by his friends and former employers, Mal went to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a songwriter, leaving his wife and children behind. He began to work on a memoir focused on his time with The Beatles which he called Living the Beatles, but when Mal was killed by the LAPD during a drug feuled rage in 1976, that manuscript was lost, left unfinished.Now, Beatles scholar and author Kenneth Womack tells Mal's story. With the blessing of Mal's wife and children, and with hundreds of brand-new interviews, photos and ephemera from Mal's archives that have never been seen before Brother Malcolm is what no other Beatles book can, telling a little-known story and celebrating an important but virtually unknown character in the Beatles lore.