Malcolm Frederick Evans (1935–1976) was employed as the road manager and personal assistant to the British rock band the Beatles from 1963 up until their break-up in 1970.

[1] In 1988, a box was found in the publisher's basement containing the full manuscript for the memoir along with his personal diaries, notebooks, and photos.

[5][6] The book covers Evans' life from his childhood in Wales up until his death in 1976, which Womack argues was a suicide by cop.

[7] The book also contains scans of previously-unseen photographs and diary pages, including the final known picture of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, taken in 1974 during their only post-Beatles recording session together.

[8] Dominic Green expressed a similar sentiment in The Wall Street Journal, also calling the book a "cautionary tale" and writing that "Evans loved Elvis, the movies and cowboy shootouts.