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Oct 2023
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Talking Mal Evans with Ken Womack

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Bonus Episode!


Talking Mal Evans with Ken Womack


Kenneth Womack is a writer, historian, and critic, who has written some of the best books about The Beatles and their inner circle. 

To this list, he is about to add Living The Beatles Legend, The Untold Story of Mal Evans, the first of two books about big Mal,

which comes out in November 2023.  


Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast & New Jersey, it’s Nothing Is Real. 


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