McCartney Times

Yanni Alexis Mardas, an early employee of the Beatles‘ Apple Corps who was known as “Magic Alex,” has died. He was 74.Billboard broke the news in the U.S., but according to Greece’s NewsIT, he passed away several days ago in his apartment in the Kolonaki neighborhood of Athens, Greece. It’s believed that he died of natural caused.Born March 5, 1942 in Athens, he, as Beatles Bible notes, moved to London in the early ’60s, where he became friends with John Dunbar of the Indica Gallery, the same venue where John Lennon met Yoko Ono. Through the Indica, he met Lennon and Brian Jones, who hired him to create a psychedelic light show for a Rolling Stones tour in support of Their Satanic Majesties Request.

Source: Alexis Mardas, the Beatles’ ‘Magic Alex,’ Dies