{"product_id":"living-the-beatles-legend-the-untold-story-of-mal-evans-isbn-9780063248526","title":"Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles’ beloved friend, confidant, and roadie. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMalcolm Evans, the Beatles’ long-time roadie, personal assistant, and devoted friend, was an invaluable member of the band’s inner circle. A towering figure in horn-rimmed glasses, Evans loomed large in the Beatles’ story, contributing at times as a performer and sometime lyricist, while struggling mightily to protect his beloved “boys.” He was there for the whole of the group’s remarkable, unparalleled story: from the Shea Stadium triumph through the creation of the timeless cover art for \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band \u003c\/em\u003eand the famous \u003cem\u003eLet It Be\u003c\/em\u003e rooftop concert.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeaving a stable job as telecommunications engineer to serve as road manager for this fledgling band, Mal was the odd man out from the start—older, married with children, and without any music business experience. And yet he threw himself headlong into their world, traveling across the globe and making himself indispensable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the years after the Beatles’ disbandment, Big Mal continued in their employ as each embarked upon solo careers. By 1974, he was determined to make his name as a songwriter and record producer, setting off for a new life in Los Angeles, where he penned his memoirs. But in January 1976, on the verge of sharing his book with the world, Evans’s story came to a tragic end during a domestic standoff with the LAPD.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Beatles devotes, Mal’s life and untimely death have always been shrouded in mystery. For decades, his diaries, manuscripts, and vast collection of memorabilia was missing, seemingly lost forever…until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking with full access to Mal’s unpublished archives and having conducted hundreds of new interviews, Beatles’ scholar and author Kenneth Womack affords readers with a full telling of Mal’s unknown story at the heart of the Beatles’ legend. Lavishly illustrated with unseen photos and ephemera from Mal’s archives, \u003cem\u003eLiving the Beatles’ Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans\u003c\/em\u003e is the missing puzzle piece in the Fab Four’s incredible story. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Womack's account is full of thrilling moments. Devoted fans of the band will find much to cheer about.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Almost 50 years later, after the manuscript and other materials were discovered languishing in a storage basement by a publishing temp and returned to Evans’s family with Yoko Ono’s help, Kenneth Womack has finished the job with rigor and care.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A Holy Grail for fans, offering an extended look into the band.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Womack has woven a portrait full of complex threads that lead everywhere and, near the end of Evans' life, nowhere. The devout dedication to 'his boys,' his obsession with Westerns and guns, abandoning his wife Lily and children Gary and Julie for weeks and months on end as he ate, drank, slept, and drugged around the world . . . to finally the gut-wrenching, horrific conclusion to his life that, until now, has become the stuff of legend. This book is just amazing.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eQ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Womack’s book is a celebration—not just of Evans, but of all the unsung supporting characters who make creative life possible. . . . It removes the cloud of mythology that often shrouds the Beatles’ story and reminds us that their superstardom was by no means predestined.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Like discovering the contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Womack’s exclusive access to Evans’ unpublished archives, diaries, self-recorded notes, unfinished autobiographical manuscripts, and previously unseen pictures (along with numerous new interviews) conveys another view of the Beatles’ stunning history.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCulture Sonar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With \u003cem\u003eLiving the Beatles Legend, \u003c\/em\u003eWomack has shined an enormous light on a Beatles adjunct whose enormous contribution and heart-rending personal story has not been told until now.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Womack's \u003cem\u003eLiving the Beatles Legend \u003c\/em\u003eis packed with behind-the-scenes stories spanning the band’s career and beyond [and] illustrated with rarely seen photographs and pages from the diaries of Malcolm Evans, their road manager and right-hand man, whose tragic story is itself fascinating.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dey Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890438664421,"sku":"NP9780063248526","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063248526.jpg?v=1730233284","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/living-the-beatles-legend-the-untold-story-of-mal-evans-isbn-9780063248526","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}