across the universe (in a suitcase)

LONDON - All you need is luck. AP News.

Suitcase Yields Possible Beatles Trove

A vacationer who purchased a suitcase at an Australian flea market found a trove of Beatles memorabilia inside, including photos, concert programs and unreleased recordings, The Times newspaper reported Tuesday.

While the materials have yet to be authenticated, some experts believe the collection is the lost "Mal Evans archive," originally belonging to the Beatles' roadie and sound recordist.

Evans was killed by police in Los Angeles in 1976 after he had brandished a fake gun. The contents of the suitcase were lost during the police investigation, The Times said.

((Of the many Beatles books that I own from my freaky love days, only 1 or 2 ever went into the Mal Evans death, and he was one of the Beatles' inner-circle, ultraclose friends. Such a rare thing in the heyday of celebrity. Tragic deaths of Beatlefriends = not limited to Mal, though. Their manager and mastermind Brian Epstein died of a pill overdose pretty early on. What used to make me very, very sad about him in particular was that he was gay and closeted, and reportedly quite into John (he had great taste)...John sort-of came forward about the flirtation several years down the road, but never in a "that dodgy dodger" way. More in a wonderful "he was a lovely man, and we flirted, and so what?" way. John 4-Ever (I wrote it on the wall of Abbey Road Studios in London), and Brian 4-Ever, and Just Say No To Killing People Who Brandish Toy Guns (because I'm in Big Trouble if this is the case) and Just Say !YES! to Being A Lucky Aussie Tourist Who Scores Lost Beatles Tapes In A Thrift Suitcase.))

fell on 2004-07-13 at 8:56 a.m.

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