Kenneth Womack told The Post. “Please Please Me was about to be their first No. 1 single [in the UK]. This is do or die time.
You gotta get down to London, be on all big shows. You know, it’s now or never.”And when his fellow Beatles roadie Neil Aspinall got the flu, it was up to Evans to literally take them on the road from Liverpool to London during a snowstorm in the midst of the UK’s historic Big Freeze.“So England was essentially cut off by ice, and Mal drove them down — and Liverpool is 200 miles from London,” said Womack. “On the way back, the windshield cracked and basically exploded.
Mal knocked out all the pieces of it, as snow and cold air is flying into the van.“John Lennon wrapped himself in scarves and put, like, a bag over his face and cut eye holes.
And the Beatles got in the back, and they made a Beatle sandwich — all four of them — because they were freezing to death.”And as they shared “one big big bottle of hooch” — as well as each other’s body heat — they would ask Evans how much farther there was on their journey.
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