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Ivor’s Story

In an almost sixty-year career, journalist and investigative reporter Ivor Davis has spent his life on the inside, covering music, murder, politics, and Hollywood. One day, he woke up to realize he had been an eyewitness to some of the most incredible moments in US history. A colleague described him as “A hybrid Forrest Gump and Zelig.”

Over the decades, Davis’s history unfolded like fiction, first as an American foreign correspondent based in North America, then as a weekly columnist for the New York Times Syndicate, and later as an acclaimed author.

Coming to America from London in 1962, he posed as a student and was smuggled onto the campus of the University of Mississippi to witness James Meredith becoming the first black student ever enrolled on the “Ole Miss” campus. Journalists were killed in the ensuing riots.

In 1964, he was embedded with the Beatles on their first American tour when they conquered North America. He ghost-wrote George Harrison’s column for The London Daily Express. In 1965, he was the only newspaper reporter who accompanied the Beatles to meet Elvis Presley. The Presley-Beatles summit came just days after Davis dodged bullets during the notorious Watts riots. Fifty years later, he wrote The Beatles and Me on Tour, chronicling their adventures in America.

One warm night in 1968, after being on the campaign trail, Davis found himself in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel when Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy was assassinated.

In 1969, as a reporter, he became deeply embedded in the life of cult leader Charles Manson, drawing a vivid picture of life inside the Manson Family. He co-authored the first book on the Manson murders, Five to Die. In his most recent gripping book, Manson Exposed: A Reporter’s 50-Year Journey into Madness and Murder, he shares his odyssey over half a century.

He updated his award-winning, best-selling memoir The Beatles and Me On Tour with a 60th-anniversary edition released in 2024. Chris Carter, host of the long-running “Breakfast with the Beatles” radio show, declared: “Nobody tells a story better than Mr. Ivor Davis! He was there when it happened, and lucky us—he remembers it like Yesterday.”

In 2024, he published The Devil in My Friend: The Inside Story of a Malibu Murder, which is a mesmerizing true account of the shocking discovery that a friend that he and his journalist wife Sally Ogle Davis believed in, was guilty of murdering his wife and 8-year-old stepson, after probably getting away with the murder of his first wife. In her review of this true crime book, Eileen Williams wrote, “Malibu murders don’t come along every day, and neither does a story like this one…“

He is now completing his new book, which chronicles untold inside stories about all the celebrities, stars, and politicians he has worked with over his long career.