A Day in the Life of a Beatles Roadie: Inside Mal Evans’s Notebooks

Mal Evans was more than a roadie. He was the fourth emergency Beatle. The guy who tuned guitars, fetched tea, broke up arguments, and wrote down everything in tiny block letters in spiral notebooks that he carried everywhere.

Inside them are the real Beatles: complaining about cold tea, arguing over lyrics, joking about Paul’s new beard. Mal logged it all. He even wrote early lyric ideas for “Sgt. Pepper,” scribbles that fans still debate.

He wasn’t just carrying amps. He was carrying history.