George Harrison and Mal Evans posing with their watches (1964)
Photo by: Leslie Bryce
“When I started going to The Cavern, I went there so often I became a bouncer, and that was George’s instigation. He said, ‘Look, you’re big and ugly enough, why don’t you be a bouncer on the door? You get paid for it, you get in the band room and you see the bands.’ George was the first of The Beatles I made contact with, really. So we were really close to begin with. The first time I went to The Cavern, The Beatles were on and I had that feeling, ‘Oh, this is the greatest thing in the world!’” - Mal Evans, The Beatles: Off The Record
“I went to the Cavern and saw the walls wet with condensation, but not very often because I was at home with the baby. But I remember George Harrison coming around to our house a couple of times to keep me company when The Beatles weren’t playing because he knew I was left out. That was nice of him.” - Lily Evans [Mal’s wife],The Ray Connolly Beatles Archive(2005)
“Do love George, you know…there is a soul inside that skinny face…” - Mal Evans,When They Were Boys
“Mal Evans, Beatles’ Equipment Manager, looks very happy about the new gold Roamer watch that George has just given him. He had his busted on that hectic Liverpool trip, and as soon as George heard about it he promptly went out and bought him another one.” -Beatles Book Monthly Issue No. 14 (Sep. 1964)
“Once they’d completed the recording [for MMT], Mal, Neil and their families were whisked to Greece by The Beatles at George Harrison’s expense.” - Beatlesnumber9.com,“Mal Evans’ diary”
“George arranged for Mal’s family to receive £5,000 [roughly £32,560 today] on his death; he had no pension and he had not kept up his life-assurance premiums.” - The Daily Beatle(2015)
