“I’ve come with a message from John,” Alex told Cynthia, according to Philip Norman’s book John Lennon: A Life. Magic Alex broke the news to Cynthia about Lennon’s relationship with Yoko Ono. In her book, Wonderful Tonight, Pattie Boyd says Magic Alex convinced John that “the Maharishi was evil.” But Mardas was also the malcontent who started the rumor that the mystical Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was mooning over Mia Farrow, lusting after her sister, dear Prudence, and possibly having an affair with Lennon’s wife Cynthia. Lennon almost credited Mardas as co-writer of “What’s the New Mary Jane,” saying “This was a thing I wrote half with our electronic genius Alex,” in a 1969 interview, per New Musical Express, and the mad inventor appeared in the film Magical Mystery Tour. He was named head of Apple Electronics when The Beatles formed Apple Corps. All four members of the band attended Mardas’ wedding in 1968.
But Magic Alex looms far larger in the Beatles universe. It has a swivel neck and would be impossible to tune. He also gifts John Lennon with the prototype of a combination rhythm guitar and bass.
In The Beatles: Get Back, Magic Alex develops, designs, and delivers a state-of-the-art recording console, which creates far too much hum to be usable in recordings. Jackson also gives hazy focus to the man who disturbed the sound, Yanni “John” Alexis Mardas, better known as “Magic Alex.”
Longtime friends Neil Aspinall and Mal Evans, the managing director of Apple and the band’s road manager, respectively, stick around to make sure the band is getting what they need, while co-producer and engineer Glyn Johns does the same for the audio. Peter Brown, who was Brian Epstein’s assistant, pops by with papers. Members of The Beatles’ inner circle also make appearances. Audiences can see chord changes and teary eyes. The clarity of Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back brings a lot out in the mix.
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