#mal Evans

[deitripper]

Hiii it's been a while 🗣️🗣️🗣️ serving u a smiley john🧔☝️

need to change my phone bc i feel the camera is slowly turning into crappp 🥹🥹🥹 i'll try to get a scanner soon just to post decent quality illustrations

U can find me on instagram @_deitripper is my username!

[elafranco2024]

Candid and lovely pictures of Paul McCartney and Mal Evans, a gentle giant. I believe Mal was so important to the Beatles and very loyal to them. And he especially loved Paul.

I would love to read Mal's book if I ibelieved that it had not in fact been tampered with and retouched. After all, Mal was murdered days before his book was delivered for publication and it was published only decades later when Mal was no longer with us.

[bonithica-art]

what if the bugs were ponies

[javelinbk]

Drop everything, new John & Paul photo from 1974 just dropped!

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, May Pang and Harry Nilsson in LA, 29th March 1974. Photo taken by Mal Evans.

For Mal, the sunny afternoon of March 29 would bring pure magic in contrast with the previous evening’s lackluster proceedings. The McCartney clan showed up [at the Santa Monica beach house] out of the blue, this time with daughters Heather, Mary, and Stella in tow, and Mal was thrilled at the prospect of seeing John and Paul together again—twice in the span of two days, no less. And he was by no means disappointed, observing the two old friends reclining on the patio together and, later, walking along the beach, with May, Linda, and the McCartney brood trailing along behind them. “Nice to see him and John together,” Mal scribbled in his diary later that month.

At one point that afternoon, Evans reached for his camera and snapped a photo of the two old friends lounging at the beach house — flanked by their partners, Linda and May Pang, and Harry Nilsson. May would also take some Polaroids of the meeting at some point this day, but there's a very real possibility that Evans' picture is the last photo ever taken of the 20th Century's greatest songwriting duo. (It will be included in the upcoming collection of Evans' diaries and archives, slated for publication in 2024.)

[nikidontsurf]

THE BEATLES in Rishikesh, India 1968

[tavolgisvist]

[crepesuzette2023]

Hold up ,,, Mal called Paul his love in his diaries?

Yes. In his autobiography. He also analyzed their relationship in his diaries. For some context, here's a longer passage from Ken Womack's book, Living the Beatles Legend (Chapter 31).

As January 1970 came to close, Mal began drifting into an emotional slide that has been developing over the past several years. "Seem to be losing Paul," he wrote on January 27. "Really got a stick from him today. He let me down," and ominously added "Fixing a hole," "Pepper," and "directorship" to a growing list of disappointments. Apparently, the conversation had turned yet again to the issue of Mal's servile role in Paul's life, with the roadie believing that the association was bounded by friendship and love. "A servant serves," Mal wrote, "but he who serves is not always a servant," he added, echoing John's philosophy from December 1968. "Love is as sharp and piercing as a sword, "Mal reasoned, "but as the sword edge dulls — you sharpen it. So love's keenness needs honing — needs honesty." *

[...]

On February 11, Mal joined John and Yoko for a lip-synched performance of "Instant Karma!" on Top of the Pops, with the roadie, clad in beige suit and a light-green tie, playing the tambourine. By this juncture, Mal's long-standing relationship with Paul was in freefall. A few days earlier, he have been awakened by a 1 p.m. telephone call from the Beatle. It went "something like this," he wrote in his diary:

Mal: yeah? Paul: I've got time at EMI over the weekend. Would like you to pick up some gear from the house. Mal: Great, man. That's lovely. Session at EMI?! Paul: Yes, but I don't want anyone there to make me tea. I have the family – wife and kids there. Mal: [thinking to himself] Goes my poor head, "Why????" **

By the next week, Mal found himself behind the wheel of the Apple van, moving Paul's gear from EMI Studios to Morgan Studios, another Northwest London facility where Paul could work incognito. At one point, Neil cornered Mal about Paul surreptitious recording sessions, demanding to know more. "Where's Paul?" he asked, to which Mal tersely replied, "Not telling you."

In other instances, Mal ordered a Mellotron for Paul, while keeping him fully stocked with plectrums and other gear. In late February, Paul asked Mal to move everything back to EMI, where he was set to record "Maybe I'm Amazed" in Studio 2. For Mal, everything came to a head at 7 Cavendish Ave., when "my long love, Paul, to whom I have devoted so many years of loyalty, turned around to me and said, I don't need you anymore, Mal." *** *, ** : Evans, "Diaries." [1963—1974.] 10 vols. Malcolm Frederick Evans Archives. Entries from Jan 27 & Feb 5, 1970.

***: Evans, Mal, 'Living the Beatles Legend: Or 200 Miles to Go.' Unpublished MS, 1976. Malcolm Frederick Evans Archives.

[gardenwalrus]

The Beatles behind the bar at the Wimbledon Palais, London, to shake hands with fans before a special performance for members of their Southern Area fan club. 14 December 1963.

'The strangest of these occasions was the Southern Area Fan Club Convention on Saturday, December 14. In a never-to-be-repeated marathon flesh-pumping experience The Beatles shook the overheated hands of almost 3,000 Beatle People in the space of a few hours. We took over Wimbledon Palais - probably the best-known ballroom in London in its heyday - for the event, and filled the place with invited club members chosen at random. The Beatles stood for several hours behind the ballroom’s long wooden bar, leaning across to be kissed by their fans or to sign autograph books. Considering the high excitement of the situation, the fans were well-behaved. Neil and Mal acted as security guards, keeping the seemingly endless queue moving along and occasionally untangling a Beatle who had become hopelessly enmeshed with an over-excited fan.'

- Tony Barrow, John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me (2005)

After these close encounters with the Fab Four, the fans were treated to a special stage show in the main ballroom area where an overprotective Palais management had constructed a high-walled metal cage inside which the group were to perform on an extended makeshift stage beneath a huge banner that screamed: WIMBLEDON PALAIS WELCOMES THE BEATLES. Welcomes? The cage didn’t make it look like that! In my lengthy preparatory discussions with the Palais people they had seriously understated their plans to surround The Beatles’ stage with metal barriers for the protection of both the boys and their fans. When we saw the reality of the monstrous structure we were furious. The Beatles threatened at first to walk out unless the whole intimidating barricade was demolished and there were mutterings about “prison conditions” and “more like a zoo than a dance hall”. Eventually, for the sake of their fan club members, they went on and gave an enthusiastic mini-concert. During this, as the crowd surged forward pinning those with a place in the front row against the cage, John remarked in a loud stage whisper: “If they press any harder they’ll come through as chips.”

- Tony Barrow, John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me (2005)

[bonithica]

mal x paul REAL ?!

[ceofjohnlennon]

The Beatles randomly spending time with strangers on street, taken by Mal Evans. ㅡ From The Beatles Monthly Book, October/1967.

[harrisonarchive]

At the Isle of Wight Festival, August 31, 1969.

“No sooner had he [Dylan] and his family and entourage made it to the farmhouse on the Isle of Wight that was to be their base than George and Pattie Harrison arrived with Ringo Starr’s marijuana stash. The two superstars knew each other well — Harrison had stayed at Dylan’s house in Woodstock – but Ray [Foulk] says there was still clearly a mutual reverence. ‘I remember [Dylan’s manager] Bert Block whispering in my ear as we were all sitting by the swimming pool and George and Bob were talking and he said, “look at them, they’re star-struck with each other!” ‘George had the Beatles’ Abbey Road album in his hand, they’d just finished it the day before, and he had an acetate of it. He put it on the record player in the barn and there was a lot of envy in the air… but he was moaning about how John and Paul wouldn’t let him have more than two songs and how unfair it was. I was surprised how openly he was saying all this.’ Another time Ray remembers walking into the living room where George and Bob were singing a close harmony duet of the Everly Brothers’ ‘All I Have to Do Is Dream’ which, he says, ‘sounded fantastic.’ [...] [W]hen he [Dylan] eventually went on stage, he was excited, proudly brandishing his guitar like a schoolboy and beaming: ‘Look, I’ve got George’s [Harrison’s] guitar!’” - The Independent, May 29, 2015 About that guitar, a Gibson J-200.

[therealsaintscully]

"If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired."

[bonithica-art]

instagram drawing requests

[javelinbk]

The Beatles in India, 1968: A collection of photographs. From the Pattie Boyd collection at Christie’s

[muzaktomyears]

Mal himself was acutely aware of the special relationship he shared with Paul, the Beatle with whom he was, to his mind, undoubtedly the closest, but he also understood Paul's psyche best, and recognized that his friend "seemed to have the attitude of a North of England mill owner." In one especially painful instance, Mal recalled Paul "turning to me and saying, 'you are my servant. You do as you are told.'" Mal felt shaken to the core. "'I've never been anybody's servant,'" he replied, "always feeling in my heart that I worked with the Beatles and never for them." In his anger and hurt, Mal sought out John's advice. "They also lead who serve," Lennon told the roadie, paraphrasing the famous line from John Milton's Sonnet 26 (1673), "They also serve who only stand and wait." (...) Flush with John's guidance, Mal took to his diary, transforming the Beatle's words of wisdom into a poem: Don't take my weakness Give me your strength Don't give me your weakness Take my strength To rule is to serve To lead is to follow I'll serve and follow you And take you to love. For Mal, John's good counsel made all the difference, calming him after what he felt to be a personal affront.

Living the Beatles Legend, Kenneth Womack (2023)