# Mal Evans’s Beatles memoir recounts meeting Elvis and Manila gun threat

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/meeting-elvis-was-my-biggest-day-with-the-beatles-says-road-managers-book/
- Published: 2026-11-02T08:00:37+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-02T10:33:10+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/nov/02/elvis-presley-the-beatles-mal-evans-memoir
- Topics: Americas, Culture, World

## Key points

- Mal Evans’s Beatles memoir will appear in December.
- It includes his account of meeting Elvis in 1965.
- The manuscript also describes danger on the 1966 Philippines tour.

## Summary

Mal Evans’s memoir about his years with the Beatles will be published for the first time in December, 50 years after his death. The road manager’s account includes his recollection of the Beatles’ 1965 meeting with Elvis Presley, which he called the greatest day of his time with the band.

Evans worked with the group from their early days in Liverpool through their final studio years, recording his experiences in diaries, photographs and dictated tapes. The 95,000-word manuscript also recounts the Beatles’ dangerous 1966 visit to the Philippines, where Evans said a man threatened him with a gun while demanding autographed photographs.

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