Mal Evans on the road with the Beatles on this day in 1963
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January 23 : On This Day with The Beatles
The Cavern (evening), with The Fourmost, Ken Dallas & The Silhouettes and Fred-
die Starr & The Midnighters.
The Beatles drove back to Liverpool from London for the gig in freezing temperatures. The windscreen of the van shattered and their stand-in roadie Mal Evans drove with no glass. The group were so cold they lay huddled on top of each other in the back.
John Lennon told Neil Aspinall what had happened: “You should have seen Mal. He had this paper bag over his head with just a big split in it for eyes. We were all in the back of the van doing the same thing. It was freezing. The windscreen shattered. Mal had to knock out the rest of the broken glass and just drive on. It was perishing. Mal looked like a bank robber.”
The Beatles had a Cavern gig the next lunchtime and an out of town gig that evening. Mal showed up at Neil’s with the van in perfect condition, windscreen re- placed. Neil: “We never knew how he’d managed to get it fixed again so quickly and, even if we didn’t say so, it was something we remembered. Ten out of ten to Mal for not just bringing back the van and leaving it for someone else to get a new windscreen put in.” Mal’s efficiency was to lead him to a career with The Beatles which lasted out the decade.
Credit : "The Beatles Diary" : Volume 1 The Beatles Years
