By Mortz C. Ortigoza
I have to burn my Bob Woodward's non- fiction thick covered
book collections mostly about the stints of U.S Presidents and government top
honchos. I just found last night termites infesting, impregnating, and gnawing
the covers and pages of these hardbound.
Without doing that ultimate solution, these pests will be consuming the hundreds of my mostly political books in my library and eventually gnawing the valuable wood parts of my abode.
If I was not wrong, I have 20 collection of Woodward's hardcovers.
He was the Washington Post’s correspondent in the early 1970s who exposed
President Richard Nixon's corruption in the Watergate Scandal.
A friend in the United States sent me this year a copy of
Woodward’s blockbuster's Peril. It was
a collaboration with Robert Costa.
One of the contents of PERIL – and the authors’ prologue
that perked up the excitement if not curiosity of readers - was about a U.S General who during the last
days of President Donald Trump called his Chinese counterpart to warn China
incase "Nutcase Donald Duck" ordered the Generals to nuke out to
smithereens, Jezz, the Chinks.
Glued on my laptop last night watching the first two hours
of the eight hours’ documentary of the Beatles how they rehearsed, jammed, and
composed new songs with urgency for a concert to be held on the roof top of a
building dubbed as Get Back. It was relishing - as if seeing up close and
personal- their demeanours. I saw John Lennon belted "Jealous Guy"
with different lyrics and Paul McCartney sang as warm up “Another Day”. Those
two songs did not become part of their second to last album's Let It Be. They
became their single after the Fabulous Four parted ways in 1969.
Here’s the introduction of the docu: But when director Peter Jackson was asked a few years ago by the
surviving Beatles to revisit the footage shot for Let It Be, and cut it into an
all-new documentary, he combed through more than 60 hours of video and 150
hours of audio, and found an altogether different story. This was not the
Beatles in misery, he told reporters—this was the Fab Four laughing,
reconnecting, rehearsing not just the songs for Let It Be but half of Abbey
Road and many numbers that would go on to dot John, Paul, and George’s solo
records".
***
This how the Beatles especially Lennon and McCarthy composed a song. In their session they saw a newspaper banner story
about a member of the Parliament who wanted to stop the migration in Great
Britain of Pakistanis, Indians, and people from the Commonwealth.
The salient features of that phenomenon:
- Recorded January 9, 1969 during the Get Back/Let It Be
sessions;
- Enoch Powell was a conservative member of Parliament and gave a fear baiting speech about if they allow immigration from the British Empire Commonwealth countries, the whites would soon be in the minority. This was obviously on the Beatles minds at the time when they did this mocking song about him and the people who believe these things;
- Many long-time Beatles fans are already familiar with
this, but for anyone having a negative misunderstanding of this song, watch
this video to understand what was going on with late 60's;
***
My answer will be "Disagreed" too!
When the two hosts and a male guest of CNN's New Year
Special were asked: If you watched the eight hours new TV documentary about the
60 hours’ video footage of the Beatles composing, rehearsing, and preparing
their rock songs mostly seen in the albums Let It Be and Abbey Road, was John
Lennon's then GF Yoko Ono the main factor that saw the Fabulous Four broke out?
The three showed their "Disagree Cards".
With my link on that flicks where I saw the spirited demeanors
of the four while doing antics and play their stuffs, I saw there too in that
16 session days that the presence of Yoko, Linda McCartney and five-year-old
daughter Heather goofing around and Ringo Star's wife were welcome sight. John
and Yoko sometimes dances while the Beatles and other players like keyboard
genius Billy Preston play.
Damn, going to watch again the three series films since I
felt I'm a kibitzer while they play their old rock classics that
made them the undisputed No. 1 Rock Band in the world.
The discontent of George Harrison who said his songs and guitar styles have been disputed by Paul McCarthy - who had a commanding presence in that docu - caused -as one of the major factors - the dismemberment of the group. He even left the session for three days prejudicing the rooftop video and audio recording of the various songs dubbed as Get Back.
This newly found 60 hours’ video footages of the unguarded
Beatles in sessions have been the best experiences of my five decades of life
on this earth. My first encounter with the Fab Four was in the early 1980s when
I bought their bootleg cassette tape’s Hard Days Night sold at the Barter Trade
in Zamboanga City in the Southern Philippines during the furlough of my
military father.
I later discovered that they have more scintillating albums
like the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band, White Album, Let it Be, and
Abbey Road- their last album before they broke out in 1969.
The last song their The End in Abbey Road was heart wrenching as the melody and the lyrics primordially done by McCartney epitomized the classics composed by these four British teenagers in their almost one-decade collaboration that had to be ended at the disappointment of their fanatics.
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MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA
I am a twenty years seasoned Op-Ed Political Writer in various newspapers and Blogger exposing government corruptions, public officials's idiocy and hypocrisies, and analyzing local and international issues. I have a master’s degree in Public Administration and professional government eligibility. I taught for a decade Political Science and Economics in universities in Metro Manila and cities of Urdaneta, Pangasinan and Dagupan. Follow me on Twitter @totoMortz or email me at totomortz@yahoo.com.
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