NEAR the end of Living The Beatles Legend, his lengthy biography of the band’s gofer Mal Evans, Kenneth Womack quotes a note from John Lennon. The Beatle has heard that Evans is turning his diary into a memoir and offers a pastiche of its likely contents. “‘Tues: 1965’,” Lennon writes. “‘Got up, loaded van’ … should be a laugh.”
It’s a harsh judgement, but not entirely inaccurate. True, Lennon’s quip underestimates the many roles assumed by Evans after he graduated from being a part-time documentary.
