Mal Evans

MAL EVANS d1976. Roadie, assistant and friend of the Beatles. In the early 1960s, he was employed as a telephone engineer and also worked part-time as a bouncer at the Cavern Club. The Beatles manager Brian Epstein later employed him as the group's assistant roadie in tandem with Neil Aspinall. He later contributed to recordings and appeared in some of the films the group made. After The Beatles stopped touring in 1966, he carried on assisting them until their break-up in 1970. From 1969, he also found work as a record producer (most notably with Badfinger's Top 10 hit "No Matter What"). Mal Evans was killed by police on 5th January 1976 aged 40 at his home in Los Angeles. Officers were called when his girlfriend phoned the police and told them that he was confused and had a gun. The police mistook the air-rifle he was holding for a rifle and shot him dead