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MAL EVANS Living the Beatles Legend with Ken Womack | #187
MAL EVANS Living the Beatles Legend with Ken Womack | #187
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“Pop Goes the 60s”
The much anticipated book based on Mal Evan’s diaries is here and Matt interviews writer Ken Womack on the long history of the diaries travels.
Living The Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans
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Due to Ken being a good author I bought Living The Beatles Legend a few days ago, and it's next on my reading list. A caveat my "Ken the good author" statement is that while he skilfully weaves a tale, I found his John Lennon 1980 book followed the blissfully content John & Yoko narrative too closely. I have higher hopes for LTBL.
Another excellent video!!
Book was great but sad ending
I will being buying this book. One of the many Mal contributions to the Beatles was the "life of ease" answers on Yellow Submarine. I wonder if Mal was there in 65 when the Beatles finally met Elvis. He was probably was given his position in the Beatles world.
Mal passed right by me when I saw the Beatles in 1966. I wrote a letter to him in 1975 and he wrote me back. I treasure it. I have to read this but I'll have to wait for the paperback
I'm with Lily I would not have liked my husband messing around either and I have seen that a lot in music where you get locked into one job and if you are not doing it people think less of you or take you for granted
I have heard and read that Ringos wife stopped going to concerts at the Cavern cause of the girls trying to beat her up
just saw a video with one of Mal's kids on it it was very interesting such a sad ending to this life. wonder if he was the character the guy in the movie Hard Days Night was based on(the one who gets stuck taking care of grandfather) that roadie had my fav scene in the movie where the guys are on stage singing and Paul looks and grandpa is handcuffed to the roadie and then a few minutes later he is gone and the poor roadie has this aweful look on his face like I dont know how he got away honest
You have improved tremendously as interviewer and moderator. Excellent work 😊
My copy arrived last week and i just gotta bite the bullet and start to read it,I havent actually read a physical book for years as Igot really into audiobooks but when it comes to Beatles I like physical copies of everything.
Great interview excellent content
I read "Solid State: Abbey Road and the End of the Beatles," and it is a fine and very interesting book.
This is good. I'm ordering the book.
The cover photo was an idiotic idea, it focuses on Macca, why not all 4 Beatles? weird
Wikipedia: "In 1976, at the age of 40, Evans was shot and killed by police at his home in Los Angeles, when he threatened officers with what turned out to be an air rifle."
Surprising to hear that it wasn't an air gun but a real rifle after all. I'm not commenting on police practices here, just that I always heard it wasn't a real gun.
Ken’s two volume biography of George Martin was really good. (Doesn’t get mentioned on the dust flap of this book, for some reason.) This book gives a unique insight into the day to day – not always fun – reality of The Beatles on the road. Mal was a complex and fascinating character.
Thank you, a great interview, very informative and also revealing how unfortunately everything ended with Mal. Nice to finally learn more about all the background. I'm always amazed at how many interesting and moving stories the Beatles universe has to offer.
Thanks so much for this wonderful episode!
Very informative interview, I have listened to the audio book and I am currently reading through it. I think the book has the making of a movie script. The book and the interview kind of fills in a lot of the gaps of other books that I have read.
A great subject. Not a fan of this author… His John Lennon 1980 book was really disappointing and to me felt half baked and ‘creatively’ researched.
Pete Doggett or Mark Lewisohn May have been better choices to write this story. I hope I’m wrong!
Great interview! I would love a follow-up discussion about how younger people receive The Beatles. From what I see, their legacy endures. They sometimes have such interesting takes. Like this cover of Now & Then done in the style of early Beatles, which I think you'll enjoy: https://youtu.be/2tSefoJDKsU?si=pu1nmEqWCaRe1az4
Great video interview Matt. Thanks ! Does anyone know if video or audio exists from Mal Evans appearance at Beatlefest in 1975 I think was the year? I wish I could have been there.
Given that the entire Beatles story is kind of the template for everything that can go right and wrong with a band it doesn’t surprise me that Mail didn’t get credit for some of the lyrics. However he was part of the inner circle and given the Fabs were not business men it probably didn’t occur to any of them at the time. He was one of 3 people who were there from the start. (Neil Aspinall and Freda Kelly being the other two). That being the case and how tight they all were with each other the thought probably never came up
Very nice interview. I had been waiting for this book and was on the fence about it, thinking it might not be worth a read, but after listening to your kind of cliff note version here and Womack's take, I will get it. Thanks.
Apple gave Mal a loan for 500 quid instead of just giving it to him when he couldn’t make ends meet? I’m reminded of a part of the Get Back doc that I haven’t seen anyone note: the Beatles were musing about not paying Billy Preston for his work. There’s something a little gross here.
Paul wrote Love Me Do which is a good song,at only age 16.But he also wrote at only 16, the much better beautiful acoustic guitar song I'll Follow Sun which is on their very good very underrated late 1964 album Beatles For Sale.
I’m most curious about Ken Mansfield’s book and his last conversation with Mal the night before Mal was killed. Did Mal write about it? What was the deal he said he just made with Paul to get credit on some songs and why Mal wanted to meet with Ken Mansfield, but Ken was going to the Billboard Music Award and planned to meet Mal for lunch the next day. Ken knew something was wrong. We’ll probably never know because even Womack seems nervous when Paul is mentioned.
All of this claiming Mal was such a nice guy, I had heard over the years that the police shot and killed him because he was abusing his wife and acting crazy and violent on drugs.
On youtube you can watch The Beatles play to silent audiences who only applauded and cheered at the end for their great live performances, even with the primitive limited sound systems they had at the time,feedback monitors hadn't even been invented yet,When they played in Sweden in 1963,Paris in 1964,Italy in 1965 and in Japan in 1966.
And at their last concert on August 29th at Candlestick park recorded on just a little early mid 1960's tape cassette recorder ludicrously at Paul's suggestion which is on several youtube channels, they played great and rocking too.
I also met two people and know a third one who saw The Beatles in concert, one woman and one man who were my high school teachers one who saw them in 1966,and one who saw them in 1965 and the other is my second cousin who saw them at the Baltimore Coliseum when she was 16 in 1964, a year before I was even born and she became a psychologist.
They all told me that they were close enough to them to see and hear the The Beatles and that they were great. I'm sure that when teenage girls listened to The Beatles records and songs on the radio most of them weren't screaming,they knew what their music sounded like and they loved it.
Matt you correctly said so yourself in one of your great reviews of one of the early Beatles great albums from 1963 that most people think they became a studio band when they gave up touring but they were already a studio band many years before this.
The Beatles had sex with tons of young women groupies,many who were just teen girls especially during their touring years of 1963-1966 ironically they did this the most during the joke fake cleaned up image their manager Brian Epstein created for them in their early days.
In reality they were like pimps playing the part of priests! It's no coincidence that in The Beatles Anthology video series that Paul, George, and Ringo made, the story of The Beatles being thrown out of a US hotel in August 1965 because Paul was found in his hotel bedroom with an underage teen girl, was totally left out of it.
Paul McCartney also said in Hunter Davies 1968 first edition of the only authorized great Beatles biography called, The Beatles, that he had sex at age 15 with a girl who was older and bigger than him, and most 15 year old boys weren't having sex in 1957,and he said he bragged about it to his classmates the next day and that he was the first one in his class to have sex which he referred to as getting it and he said he supposes that 15 was a bit young to get it.
Paul also said in this book, that he would go into strip clubs at only 13 and he was the lad in his class that drew nude women. He also got another girl who was his girlfriend pregnant when he was only 17 and she was only 16 and Paul's father and her parents wanted them to get married but she had a miscarriage.
There is a very good 2012 Hunter Davies article about this n The New Statesman, Why I Didn't Tell The Whole Truth About The Beatles. He said in his updated only authorized Beatles biography which first came out in 1968,that The Beatles were no different from any other rock band with groupies he said but they just had more to choose from because they were more popular and more successful and that it was up to the road manager to these young women,you,you and you 5 minutes later!
In a 1983 People Magazine review which is still online, of the then new book by The Beatles manager Brian Epstein's assistant,Peter Brown and Steven Gains( they wrote a new book coming out April 2024,All You Need Is Love:An Oral History Of The Beatles which has never before published rare interviews with Paul,George,Ringo,and Yoko etc) called,The Love You Make:An Insiders Story Of The Beatles says that the book is a gothic tale of drugs,sex,music greed and genius.
It also says that the book also reveals what unlovely lives The Beatles really led,gulping speed,sucking down Scotch,keeping dozens of groupies in various hotel rooms for indiscreet pleasure,The Beatles far more resemble The Rolling Stones than the fresh-faced youngsters the press has always rhapsodized about.
In September 2018 Paul McCartney said in a GQ interview that he masturbated with John and a group of other teenage boys when they were teens and that Paul had sex with two women prostitutes at the same time when The Beatles were on tour in Las Vegas they only played in Las Vegas on August 20,1964.
Rolling Stone Magazine's May 1983 review of this book is also still online,
Peter Brown's Beatles Book:Sex,Drugs,and Rock & Roll
The Trusted Friend and Confidante Dishes The Dirt On John,Paul,George and Ringo
No doubt when George Harrison sings the lines about caresses in the morning light,casualties at dawn and we did it all, in this song When We Was Fab, he wrote on his 1987 Cloud Nine album,George was definitely referring to how wild they all really were having sex with tons of young women groupies,many as I said who were teen girls like the ones screaming in their concerts,and as also said ironically they did this the most when they were touring from 1963-1966 with their totally fake joke cleaned up image when they were wearing their matching suits and ties.
That was fantastic, thank you Matt.