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Song for Mal

from Dog Days (EP) by Inaiah Lujan

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Malcolm Frederick 'Mal' Evans (27 May 1935 – 5 January 1976) was best known as the road manager, assistant, and a friend of The Beatles.

In the early 1960s, Evans was employed as a telephone engineer, and also worked part-time as a bouncer at the Cavern Club. The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, later hired Evans as the group's assistant road manager, in tandem with Neil Aspinall. Peter Brown (one of Epstein's staff), later wrote that Evans was "a kindly, but menacing-looking young man". Evans contributed to recordings, and appeared in some of the films the group made. After The Beatles stopped touring in 1966, Evans carried on assisting them until their break-up in 1970. From 1969, Evans also found work as a record producer (most notably with Badfinger's top 10 hit "No Matter What").

Evans was killed by police on 5 January 1976, at his home in Los Angeles. Officers were called when his girlfriend phoned the police and told them that Evans was confused and had a gun. The police believed that the air rifle Evans was holding was a rifle and shot him dead.

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He was no one born nowhere
Black glasses and short blonde hair
He was six foot six, had a mile long stare
Oh Mal you're a hell of a pal

Working down at the Cavern Club
He was nice but he had to get rough
He was just trying to do the best that he could
Oh Mal you're a hell of a pal

On the hunt for figures and things
Plug it in, pick it up when it rings
Getting more and more of what he could not afford
Oh Mal you're a hell of a pal

Get some paper, get a pen
Jot it down, repeat it again
There are seven virtues, seven sins
Oh Mal you'll get yours in the end
Oh Mal you'll get yours in the end

He was shot in front of his house
Gunned down by the policeman's rounds
He was just trying to do the best that he could
Oh Mal you're a hell of a pal
Oh Mal they can't hurt you now

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from Dog Days (EP), released July 7, 2012

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"Whether laying down some succulent psychotropic hip-hop as DJ Flow Nase, feeding off of severely distorted barre chords with the riff-heavy punk band A Poor Substitute, or lending distinctive vocal abilities to the peculiar and hypnotic "funeral pop" band The Mexican, Pueblo's Inaiah Lujan is plainly a restless soul."

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