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Meeting Elvis was ‘my biggest day with the Beatles’, says road manager’s book

Global Published 2 November 2026, 13:00 · archived 2 Nov 2026

Mal Evans’s tale of historic meeting among revelations in forthcoming memoir unpublished before his death in 1976Meeting Elvis Presley was “the biggest day of all the years I have spent with the famous Beatles”, the band’s loyal road manager wrote.It is among recollections in a memoir that Mal Evans had planned to publish, with the band’s permission, before his death in 1976, aged 40, in a shooting by the Los Angeles police. Distraught over the breakup of his marriage, it is believed to have been “suicide by cop” after he repeatedly pointed an air rifle at police. Continue reading...

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