The Mal Evans archive

On January 5th, 1976, former Beatles roadie, road manager, personal assistant, sometimes bodyguard and friend of the band, was shot several times and killed at his duplex in a suburb of Los Angeles by members of the L.A.P.D.

The story of Mal Evans and his involvement with the fab four started when the band was just beginning its meteoric rise to fame.

He was introduced to the band via George Harrison when he was working door security at the Caven Club in Liverpool. From there he first became the bands' roadie who sometimes also doubled as a bodyguard. Over the next several years his job description would change many times. 

Just prior to his death, Evans had completed writing a book of memoirs called “Living the Beatles’ Legend”, which he had been due to deliver to the publishers, Grosset and Dunlap within the same week of his death. This naturally fueled speculation among the “Paul is dead” conspiracy theorists that his memoirs may have contained revelations regarding Paul McCartney’s death and subsequent substitution, especially in light of the fact that Evans was known to have been close to McCartney, particularly during *the closing months of 1966 when he accompanied the person acknowledged as McCartney to Kenya. A suitcase that Evans had with him at the time of his death, which was said to contain unreleased recordings, photos and other memorabilia, was supposedly lost by the police during the subsequent investigation and has become known as “the lost Mal Evans archive". The manuscript for "Living the Beatles' Legend" hasn't surfaced in the 4 decades since his death. None of the former Beatles attended Evans' funeral held in Los Angeles on the 7th of January. He was 40 years old. 

*the time frame that the “McCartney switch” is purported to have happened

Below: First picture of McCartney's replacement (with Evans) returning from Kenya. Taken at Heathrow airport by British press on November 19th, 1966.

 

Below: Mal & Paul horsing around. 

taken by Ringo circa 1965.

Above: Mal with Paul outside the Imperial Palace Tokyo, July 1966

Mal Evans   May 1935 - Jan 1976 

McCartney's Japan drug bust.Why was he released so soon?

On January the 16th 1980, as Paul, Linda and their 4 children were making their way through customs at Tokyo's Narita airport, a custom official discovered 219 grams of marijuana concealed in Paul's luggage and also on one of his children. 

McCartney was arrested, questioned and then taken to the Tokyo Narcotics Detention Center where he was further interrogated.

McCartney was in Japan to give 5 concerts in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka with his band Wings. Subsequently all tour dates were cancelled leading to a compensation bill of £1 million for McCartney to pay.

Within a few days the 3 remaining band members, Denny Laine, Laurance Juber and Steve Holley returned to the UK harboring bad feelings towards McCartney for the loss of their income and the wasting of their time.

While in detention, McCartney was visited by the British vice-consul, who told the former Beatle that under Japanese law he was facing up to a 7 year prison sentence. However, after spending just 10 days in custody he was miraculously released and deported. 
How was that possible?
What really happened to facilitate such a premature release from a country whose legal system (even today) makes no exceptions...regardless of who, or how famous, you might be?

Below...German journalist: 
"How did you get out?"

McCartney: "I don't know!"

At around 4:47 in the below video McCartney is asked by a German journalist how he got out [of custody] to which he

finally answers... 
"I don't know." 

Why did he say he didn't know
when it's impossible he could not have known the reason for being released prematurely?

The first time Paul McCartney was fingerprinted dates back to the 29^th of November 1960 when he and the original Beatles’ drummer, Pete Best, were arrested on suspicion of arson in Hamburg, Germany. They were released and deported the following day. [Up to this point the story is verifiable] The rest of the story goes that when the Japanese authorities received the copy of Paul McCartney’s prints [which is the usual procedure] from Interpol taken at the time of his previous arrest in 1960 it was soon realized that they did not match the ones taken from the ‘McCartney’ whom they had in their custody. 

It is not known why he was allowed to leave the country on the 10^th day of his incarceration when, in accordance with Japanese law, he should have been sentenced up to 7 years in prison for the amount of cannabis he was caught with. It is purported that an official representative from the British Government (some speculate from MI5) arrived in Japan to speak with the Japanese authorities who were holding McCartney, soon after which McCartney was released and returned to the UK.

Maybe that's the reason why he said...he didn't know!

Some Italians have their say...

There are 3 independent claims from Italians that validate James Paul McCartney was replaced back in the latter half of 1966. 
I will begin this post with the story from an Italian photographer.

Above photo taken by Emilio Lari 

In a video interview recorded in 2014, an Italian photographer named Emilio Lari claimed that in 1966 Paul McCartney was replaced by, as he put it, a "sosia"- or, lookalike, after having died in a car accident. Lari, who had worked with McCartney on the movie sets of Hard day's night and Help, stated that the person who today is known as Sir Paul McCartney is not the same Paul McCartney who he had spoken with at length and photographed in those 1964 and 65 Beatles movies. 

He also has claimed in another video that his home had been broken into and that only photos he had taken of Paul during those shoots were stolen, nothing else. Luckily he was still in possession of the negatives. In addition to that, he says Sir Paul McCartney has made offers to buy up all the photos Lari had taken of Paul back in 64 and 65, but he has never sold any of those pictures to him.

  Lari's video interview

                           

Emilio & Paul on the set of Help

       Emilio Lari in 2014

Below link: Emilio Lari's pictures of the Beatles
https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/photographers/JZX6zN/Emilio-Lari

Another Italian connection that gives more credence to the claim of McCartney being replaced is the history of a certain Aston Martin which he once owned. 
During in-depth research into the subject for his 2015 book, The Beatles Conspiracy:John, Paul, George, Ringo & Bill! author David Malocco uncovered that McCartney actually owned two Aston Martins at that same time. One was the well photographed 1966 green DB6 model, of which he took delivery in March of the same year, and the other was a 1964 DB5 Sierra blue model,(pictured below) of which the existence, according to Mr.Malocco, was not so easy to uncover. Apparently, this car was delivered to McCartney in September, 1964, not long after the Beatles had returned from their world tour of that year. It's what was recorded in the service log of that car which has led to a couple of noteworthy bits of information coming to light.

The car's ownership has changed hands several times over the decades for ever increasing amounts of money and has naturally been restored extensively several times since originally belonging to McCartney. One such restoration was completed in 2011 when the car was owned by an Italian named Walter Baroni, whose Milan company actually did the restoration on Macca's 64 Aston Martin.

McCartney's 1964 DB5 Aston Martin undergoing restoration at Baroni's Milan workshop in 2011

In his book, David Malocco says that Baroni was initially somewhat reluctant to talk about the history of the vehicle but did say that he was aware of the "McCartney death rumour". He also stated that due to information contained within the vehicle's service log, he was 100% certain that the car had been involved in a serious crash in 1966, though not to the extent of it having to be written off.
He said that the car had received a significant blow, and that the collision, which caused a foot wide by a foot deep indentation at the front of the vehicle, was most likely with a pole or something of a similar size. In addition, the windscreen was shattered. 
There was one more bit of information which Signor Baroni had to impart. He added that when he owned the car a production crew from the History Channel had visited his restoration workshop to film the car and the documentation which comes with it. Apparently one of the crew mentioned to him that the documentary they were making was planned to be broadcast only after the death of Sir Paul McCartney, and that it would contain... 
"a very outstanding revelation!"

Walter Baroni with McCartney's partially restored Aston Martin 


By combining those last two bits of information together, I can think of only one conclusion which most people would come to of what that revelation would most likely be...that being...it was in that 1966 accident with his Aston Martin DB5 (of which no official police report has ever been uncovered) that the biological Paul McCartney met his end. The very fact that no report of an accident with McCartney's 1964 DB5 Aston Martin has ever surfaced, yet the information in the car's service log runs contrary to that, indicates to me some kind of cover up has been undertaken.

To view work done on McCartney's Aston Martin at Baroni's restoration workshop click on the below link and then the video 2nd from bottom left.
http://www.baronilegend.com/video.html

Below: the car as it looks today 
after being resprayed silver

source material on Aston Martin/Baroni 
link taken from 

The Forensic evidence

The last information, which has also come out of Italy, is the most compelling of the 3 in this post, as the people involved with disseminating it have relied solely on computer enhanced forensic techniques and their expertise to back up their various claims.

(To be continued...)

Who's the man behind the "McCartney mask"?

The below youtube video shows Olivia Harrison

(George Harrison's widow) greeting "Sir Paul McCartney" by referring to him as "Billy" instead. Why would she use that name when speaking to a person who was born James Paul McCartney?

Also in the above video, his then wife, Heather Mills was noticeably pregnant, which was long before she claimed to have found out something shocking regards her husband (that being...who he really is) and yet she couldn't have helped overhearing Olivia Harrison address him as "Billy" when greeting him, as she was closer to Olivia than her husband was. However, when watching the video, she gives no indication of surprise on hearing that. Ms. Mills must have known the truth about her former husband's real identity for a longer period of time than she has let on. 

 

The concert was held at the Royal Albert Hall, London on November 29th, 2002 as a memorial to George Harrison on the 1st anniversary of his death.

Ironic photographs

All pictures in this post have certain obvious ironies about them...

Billy holding up a photo of John & Paul

    The above photoshopped picture was put together to compare an old Paul McCartney next to a young version of himself, but the disparity in the length and shape of the "two faces of Paul" is more apparent than the "aging of Paul".

Most people who look at this photo would think that only two of the people in it are there to represent two of the former Beatles (their husbands) now deceased, but in a sense there is a third...Billy Shepherd (a.k.a.Sir Paul McCartney) on the left "representing" the original James Paul McCartney...but not just at this photo shoot...incredibly enough, continually for the last 57+ years!

Books on the death and replacement of James Paul McCartney

Within the last couple of decades there have been quite a few books that have been written about the claimed death and subsequent replacement of James Paul McCartney back in late 1966.