Can the De Venecias, Ex-Dagupan Mayor Subvert the Vaunted Marcos’ Solid North?

  By Mortz C. Ortigoza

I thought that after the camp of presidential bet Leni Robredo left the huge concrete open space – host of the 76,000 crowd - of CSI mall owned by the family of former Dagupan City Mayor Belen T. Fernandez, I told my wife and son Jigger – while we were struck around 11 pm of April 8 in the muddy parking space near the highway – that Robredo’s party would be spending the night in a hotel at the coastal city.

“She’s weary doing hustings in Bani and Villasis (towns in Pangasinan) and addressed the 1,600 students and staff of the University of Pangasinan in Dagupan City the whole day,” I said.

The following morning, my mole in the camp of former five-time Speaker Joe de Venecia told me the convoy of the presidential bet had midnight dinner at the house of the rabble rousing Speaker in Barangay Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City before motoring the more than an hour rides to Tarlac City.

Through the intercession there of the De Venecias (Speaker Joe, Missus former solon Manay Gina, and incumbent Congressman Toff) she met the 140 barangay chairmen (village chiefs) of the one city and four towns’ Fourth Congressional District. The District is the perennial citadel of the De Venecias.

PANGASINAN 4^TH DISTRICT POLITICAL KINGPIN former House Speaker Joe de Venecia (extreme left, photo), son Congressman Christopher and spouse Manay Gina (2^nd and 1^st from right, photo) raised the hands of presidential candidate Leni Robredo in a colossal assembly of supporters from various parts of the 2.1 million voting strong Pangasinan province that converged at the open space of the CSI mall owned by the family of former Dagupan City Mayor Belen T. Fernandez.

“The backing of the De Venecias will frustrate the three provinces Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, and La Union in Region-1 because Pangasinan goes for Leni,” my spy said.

I told him the almost 1.5 million registered voters of the three Ilocano speaking provinces are dwarfed compared to Pangasinan’s almost 2.1 million registered voters where Ilocano and Pangasinenses divide the demography.

“Walang Solid North,” my errand boy Procopio Matulis quipped when he told me about the De Venecias and former Mayor Belen valiant decision to go against the customary sentiment of the people in the Ilocos Region (another name of Region 1).

Manay Gina by the way is a Bicolana like Leni. Does her support has something to do with regionalism or a careful tactical political move by the De Venecias as my source wanted me to believe?

The region has 3,546,764 registered voters (Comelec 2022 data taken from the 2,096, 936 voters of Pangasinan (including the independent component city’s Dagupan), 538, 730 voters of La Union, 476, 984 voters of Ilocos Sur, and 434, 114 voters of Ilocos Norte.

PRESIDENTIAL BET – who is the current Vice President of the Philippines - Leni Robredo (right, photo) and Dagupan mayoralty candidate former Mayor Belen T. Fernandez. Fernandez and the political family of former House Speaker Joe de Venecia wanted to pierce the vaunted Solid North’s voting myth of the family of the late Ilocano Dictator Ferdinand Marcos by exhorting voters to support the presidential bid of Robredo – a Bicolana. 

After the rally in Dagupan City and spending the night in Tarlac, Robredo and slate (like Senatorial bets and bitter enemies’ Antonio Trillanes and Dick Gordon – I had a brush with the brash solon Big Dick before the start of the assembly that is now viral and expected to hit a million views at Facebook -  have gargantuan rally in the nearby Pampanga province on the dusk of that day. That rally – according to the police – showed 220, 000 yelling, shoving, and jostling Ka-Pampangans who attended that sea of humanity. 

“Hinde iyan sibuyas lasona (small onions) iyan!” my columnist in Northern Watch Newspaper and pro-Marcos’ Prof. Arnel Montemayor whose nom de plume is Munting Isko cried at FB hahaha when he saw the Pampanga’s Kakam-Pinks crowd.

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A few days before the mammoth rally outside the CSI stadia and malls ensued, a mayor told me that he and another Hizzoner were badgered by Manay Gina at her residence in the coastal barangay Bunuan Binloc to join the Leni and Kiko Pangilinan’s rally.

“Sinabi ko naman kay Manay na hinde puwede kasi pinsan ko sila Marcos pero mapilit kaya papupuntahin ko na lang si misis ko doon,” he lamented.

Other hizzoners I saw there (Geez, I was near the stage and had even dinner and interviews with 1Sambayan Convenor former Supreme Court Justice Tony Carpio and ex-Ombudsman Conchita Morales inside the Stadia) were Calasiao, Binmaley, and San Manuel, Pangasinan Mayors Joseph Bauzon, Sam Rosario -who smarted Dictator Marcos jailed him - and Kenneth Marco Perez, respectively.

The other mayor told him to just ride with the wish of the matriarch of the political kingpin of the Fourth District so she would not chide them.

Instead, the De Venecia got the chiding from the avid supporters of Marcos when the family raised the hands of Robredo in the stage as the multitude in Dagupan City chanted.

Former Congressman and congressional candidate of the First District Art Celeste called the De Venecias as “has been” diminishing political force.

"In 2016, they (de Venecias) who (sic) were with the Liberal Party campaigned hard for Mar Roxas (for President and Leni Robredo for Vice President, but they (Mar-Leni) lost miserably in Pangasinan despite the massive resources of the 'yellows' then," former First District Cong. Art Celeste, who is making a congressional comeback, told Manila Times.

He recalled that even the party-list Inang Mahal of former representative Gina de Venecia did not garner substantial votes in the mammoth province.

"She (Gina) is a Bicolana like Leni Robredo who doesn't care, feel and think like the Ilocanos and Pangasinenses do," Celeste said.

Congressman Toff de Venecia was booed too by the thousands of supporters in the Leni Rally when he acknowledged and thanked President Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Bong Go.

De Venecia’s congressional rival lawyer Alvin Fernandez assailed him on his April 9 Facebook’s post: “He is now supporting the two opposing Mayors of Dagupan and is also in both their official line up. I am very happy that he is now supporting Leni although he has also been attending and supporting the other (rival Bongbong Marcos). Siya lang po nakakaalam sino sa huli ang pipiliin niyang Mayor at sino sa huli ang pipiliin niyang Presidente".

De Venecia and his mother Gina were in the Bongbong Marcos’ rally in February 27, 2022 held in Dagupan City, according to a news report.

Drone shots of the 76,000-strong “Kakampink” crowd in Dagupan City, Pangasinan during the Robredo-Pangilinan tandem’s grand rally. That’s more than double the size of the crowd when front runner Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. held a rally in the same city in February 27, 2022. Photo Credit: Rappler.com

In the March 17-21, 22022 poll of Pulse Asia, it showed that Robredo’s rival Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. got 56% while Leni notched to 24%.

But with the 9% spike of the poll stocks of Robredo and 4% decline of Marcos from the same pollster’s February 18-23, 2022 survey, Pulse Asia President Ronald Holmes opined that the Bicolana had found the silver bullet - how to swell public opinion in her favor. They are the gargantuan rallies that started first in the March 20, 2022 130,000 supporters’ Pasig rally and her other colossal assemblies, and the house-to-house strategy.

In an interview with "The Chiefs" over Cignal TV's One News, Holmes said sustaining the rise of Robredo will depend on what her campaign will do in the following weeks.

Holmes attributed Robredo's rise in the latest Pulse Asia survey to the different tactics that her team has adopted since the start of the campaign period, including the holding of large rallies and the media coverage that it received.

While the decline of support for Marcos was not statistically significant, Holmes said it is different in the case of Robredo. She saw a rise among supporters in most areas and across all socioeconomic sectors covered by the poll.

MY PROGNOSIS: Come the next scientific survey in April 20 - that could go public in May 1 – that could show Robredo spikes her March 17-21 to another 15 % then she wins the May 9 presidential derby. Failure to get that figure, she losses while Marcos wins.

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By Mortz C. Ortigoza

While sitting with some media men on our chairs in a dinner table at the opposition proclamation rally last Friday's night in Bayambang, Pangasinan, some congressman and congressional bets, mayors and mayoralty candidates dropped by at our table and exchanged pleasantries (we missed each other, by golly, since the pandemic in 2020 saw us scampered away from the public scenes).

My son ZJ was wide eyed and quipped to me: Pa' madami pala magaganda dito akala ko sa Dagupan City lang ang mga classy.

"Siyempre classy rin sila dito kasi mga anak ng pulitiko iyan at nagtatapon sila ng pera pag election dahil ang politics is game of the moneyed," I retorted.

When the debonair young Alaminos City Mayor Bryan Celeste passed by our table sorrounded by five bodyguards, I called him.

JAVELIN. The FGM-148 Javelin (AAWS-M) is an American-made portable anti-tank missile system in service since 1996, and continuously upgraded. It replaced the M47 Dragon anti-tank missile in US service.[10] Its fire-and-forget design uses automatic infrared guidance that allows the user to seek cover immediately after launch, as opposed to wire-guided systems, like the system used by the Dragon, which require the user to guide the weapon throughout the engagement. The Javelin's HEAT warhead is capable of defeating modern tanks by hitting them from above where their armor is thinnest, and is also useful against fortifications in a direct attack flight. (Wikipedia)

"Bryan nabasa mo iyong Northern Watch Newspaper I sent sa office mo?"

My son whispered to me: Pa' iyong nakapulupot na maganda sa tabi niya artista iyan.

"Sinong artista iyan?" I asked him since I only watch foreign news outlets CNN, BBC, Fox, and Al Jazeera.

"Pauline Mendoza," he quipped.

When the young well-built Sual's Vice Mayoralty candidate John Christopher Arcinue saw me, I called him: Chris, kamusta ang laban mananalo na tayo sa Mayo?

We exchanged some brief pleasantries.

Jigger told me: Artista din iyang ex. Gf niya si Nadine Lustre.

"Alam ko sinabi ni Lolo niya si Mayor Bing".

When the tall, slim, and goddess looking multi-millionaire actress and mayoralty bet Nina Jose-Quiambao passed by sorrounded by lady aides and brawny bodyguards, I hollered:

"Mayor Nina!"

"Ay Tito Mortz!"

"Fist touch," I quipped

She reciprocated it by extending her right hand and her pricey diamond ring crowned fist touch mine.

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Damn, how Davids with their U.S and U.K made shoulder fired Javelin and NLAW anti-tank missiles and armed cheap drones' Bayraktar from Turkey routing a deteriorating nuclear power in this war.

I was ecstatic in high school reading broad sheets (Yes Virginia, this probinsiyano read newspapers already at that age) when pajama clad and sandals' wearing Mujaheddin fighters in Afghanistan were armed by the Yanks with their shoulder fired heat seeking Stinger missiles that saw Soviet Russia pilots cowed in horror as they saw their colleagues in their mighty combat jets like MIG -21s and lethally armed helicopters like Mil Mi-24s - yes the one you saw in a Rambo's flick - fell from the skies in fireballs.

Despite being "dehado", technologies like these anti tanks and anti-aircraft can be a game changer.

The hated Russians in Afghanistan withdrew humiliated in the late 1980s because of the Stingers.

After that withdrawal, the once invincible super power Soviet Union crumbled into pieces (where countries like Ukraine was independently created) as the Communist economic system proselytized, er, taught to them by Karl Mark and Vladimir Lenin failed to sustain them.

The American system fed by the ideas of Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, and others burgeoned as profit motivation (the best factor to better up the general welfare) among Capitalists like those arm manufacturers I mentioned only spruced up their superior products drawing more customers around the globe and creating more employment wherever the plants of that product are located.

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P1-B TV Ad for a Senate Post that gives P300-K Monthly

 

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

 I'm watching both GMA-7 and ABS-CBN evening prime time news.

I saw Sara Duterte endorsing the Senatorial bid of Harry Roque.

Roque has become aggressive lately with his multi-million pesos 30 seconds TV ads that cost more or less P500, 000 per 30 seconds.

When I consulted the latest March 9-14 polls of Publicus Asia, it showed Roque - the pet peeve of many Filipinos because of his eccentric principles - catapulted from the cellar (No. 30 several months ago) to No. 13.

One hard pushed and he will be in the Magic 12 almost two months before the May 9 election.

I suspected Roque's patron President Rodrigo Duterte "bankrolled" his foray in the Senate race -- just like what he did to senatorial bets Bato dela Rosa and Bong Go in the 2019 election.

I've been telling all and sundry that those who can afford the hundreds of millions of pesos of ads on TV win the elusive Senate seat.

Alan Peter Cayetano, Win Gatchalian, Mark Villar, and Joel Villanueva soar in the Top 10 by spending P1 billion each on ads since they patronize the magic of boob tubes middle of last year.

Damn, a billion of pesos to a post that gives P300, 000 a month or P23.4 million as salary in a six years term.

Shield Law Does not Protect Radio Announcers on Libel

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

My radio announcer friend’s Harold Barcelona called me by phone telling me he and a radio tandem at DWPR in Dagupan City would be sued with libel by a government official.

“Ano ang sinabi ninyo at kakasuhan kayo?” I posed.

He answered that in his scathing passion he told the public that the official furnished the tiles of his house with those intended for a government building.

His tandem Sammy Lusalla joined him in opining about the alleged corruption of the government brass.

Photo credit: Techinasia

I told him if they have evidence to back up their accusation the case will be dismissed later by the judge of the Regional Trial Court. If they have none, they go to jail and serve the eight years’ jail time for cyber libel after their conviction.

The seasoned radio man Harold knew about the ordinary libel because when I exposed the members of the Provincial Board more than a decade’s ago as recipient of P40,000 a month each payola from the maintainer of the illegal numbers’ game jueteng he was the guy I asked with intrepidity to distribute my newspaper’s Northern Watch to the offices of the local legislature

“Pare, tutuluyan ka daw nila,” he said to me through phone about the livid deputados and their vice governor and their plan to charge me in court with written defamation.

I told Harold then that libel based on the Revised Penal Code did not threaten me.

“Six years below lang ang kulong niyan. Sa Probation Law natin pag Prision Correctional puweding e apply ng probation walang kulong walang record iyan pag na convict ako. E di ako ma ku-convict diyan kasi my source – with witnesses to back it up – was their fellow member”.

That case was eventually dismissed by the RTC Judge.

I told him that his and Sammy’s predicaments were more serious because if the complainant and his witness complained at their affidavit that they hear through the social media like Facebook the libelous remarks about the tiles – it would be Cyber Libel for them.

Proceeding from the definition of libel under Article 353 of the Revised Penal Code, Cyber Libel cyber is defined as a public and malicious imputation of a crime, or of a vice or defect, real or imaginary, or any act, omission, condition, status, or circumstance tending to cause the dishonor, discredit, or contempt of a natural or juridical person, or to blacken the memory of one who is dead, and committed through a computer system or any other similar means which may be devised in the future.

Since their program is a bloc time – where they promote the stocks of their patron politician and hit his opponents – they ask their benefactor to shoulder the acceptance fee of the private lawyer that runs to tens of thousands of pesos.

Not to mention each appearance at the prosecutor's office of their legal counsel to answer the complaint affidavit of the complainant and his witnesses and monthly hearing in the RTC that will bill them with few thousands of pesos.  

“Puwede rin kayo kumuha ng libre na abogado sa PAO (Public Attorney’s Office). Pero madaming kasong hinahawakan iyon baka matuluyan kayo makulong kayo sa kaso niyo dahil walang probation iyan,” I told him.

Harold and Sammy are one of the many media men in my province that faces Cyber Libel cases in this acrimonious nasty May 9, 2022 national and local election because of their “odium and opprobrium”.

(Click here to see who are those other reporters who brace for charges with this criminal offense)

 Whether they have done their craft in good faith that will entail dismissal later from the court, these brothers and sisters in the profession however should remember that they should be prudent on what they remark on air.

Radio announcer has limited protection than newspaper reporter. The latter can cite the Shield Law or Republic Act No. 1477 to avoid being sued or chalk up dismissal of the case from the court.

It says “Without prejudice to his liability under the civil and criminal laws, the publisher, editor, columnist or duly accredited reporter of any newspaper, magazine or periodical of general circulation cannot be compelled to reveal the source of any news-report or information appearing in said publication which was related in confidence to such publisher, editor or reporter unless the court or a House or committee of Congress finds that such revelation is demanded by the security of the State (Section 1)”.

Shield Law is the Philippines copycat – just like our Libel - of United States’ law.

(READ my blog on Shield Law here)

The lawyer of the newspaper reporter can just ask the prosecutor or the judge to dismiss the case because it is “privileged” due to the Shield Law.

Mayorship Bet Calls Rival “Tandang”, Himself “Matador”

MOST AWAITED SUAL POLL

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

SUAL, Pangasinan – Seasoned politician former Congressman Jesus “Boying” Celeste described himself as a matador (bullfighter) pitted to the less experienced tandang (rooster) in the most sought fight of the 2022 mayoral election the whole province of Pangasinan waited with interest.

The rooster the former solon dubbed is incumbent Mayor Liseldo “Dong” Calugay – who is serving his first term as the chief executive of the local government unit here.

“At ang gusto ko ring malaman ninyo magmula ng dumating kami rito sa inyong bayan. Nakatutok po lahat ang inyong probinsiya Pangasinan sa laban na ito sa ngalan ng pulitika. Ito po ang pinapanood nilang laban dahil ako po ang lalaban kung baga hindi po sa pagdadala ng sariling bangko ang kalaban ko po tandang ako po ang matador experienciado,” he told the bevy of applauding supporters who attended his consultation at the congressional office here of his younger brother First District Rep. Arnold “Noli” Celeste.

A matador (bullfighter) (left, photo) and a tandang (fighting cock).

In the 2019 mayoralty election this town was tagged by the Commission on Election as hotspot where one of its grounds was the assassination of Barangay Sto. Domingo Chairman Romulo Agbayani through a .45 caliber hand gun in front of his house by motorcycle men riding in tandem.

Former Mayor Roberto ”Bing” Arcinue, an ally of the Celeste, described the dangerous situations like menacing men wearing black jackets roamed gung-ho on their two-wheel vehicle in the nineteen villages of the coastal town instilling fear to his supporters.

“Somebody wanted to paint my town as chaotic. One of my village chiefs was assassinated last June (2018) without even a known reason,” former Mayor Arcinue said.

A pugnacious Celeste warned Calugay that any harm his supporters could inflict to his believers he would courageously deal.

 “Kung gagalaw sila na anuhin nila kami talagang lalabanan ko sila”.

He said he would not allow to happen to his supporters what the advocates of his rival had done in the 2019 election, he said in a radio interview.

In November 2021, a giant indignation rally ensued here. It was participated by three thousand residents after the application of a half-a –billion pesos’ loan of the mayor and members of the legislature of this one of the country’s richest towns was approved by the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP).

“Alam ninyo po at alam po nating lahat na ang pera na iyan ang walang patutunguhan. Pag iyan po ang ni release po ninyo. Ang kawawa po ay ang taong bayan ng Sual,” Leeward Caburao – the leader of the demonstrators and a candidate for the legislature under Celeste – articulated to the media the people’s opposition to the decision of the LBP about the irony of the P500 million debt. This despite the almost four hundred million budget this town derived from local and national taxes and appropriated them to its yearly budget.

The 1,000 MW Sual Coal-fired Thermal Power Plant hosting town was ranked No. 2 richest in 2017 among the 1,488 municipalities in the Philippines.

In 2020, Cmci.dti.gov.ph however did not include the LGU as what it titled the Top 10 richest municipalities in the Philippines.

Since the almost three years' term of Calugay started in 2019, critics have accused his administration of incompetence.

With the consummation of the half-a-billion pesos’ loan, this town – Celeste’s supporters aver - will further recede to her glorious rank as one of the richest towns in the Philippines because the significant part of its collected revenues like the P200 million a year business and property taxes from the power plant and the P150,000 national and local taxes will be used for the yearly amortization of the loan.

The vice mayoralty tandem of Celeste is Councilor John Christopher Arcinue. He is the grandson and son of the former two mayors here. He is pitted with Vice Mayor Dioneil Caburao who is running in this year's poll under Mayor Calugay.

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One of the Best Experiences in My Life

 

 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".

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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;

Political writer Mortz C. Ortigoza - the writer of this article - who hailed from the Philippines belts in this video "A Day in the Life". It is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as the final track of their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Credited to Lennon–McCartney, the verses were mainly written by John Lennon, with Paul McCartney primarily contributing the song's middle section. (Wikipidea)

- 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;

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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.

 Japanese Yoko Ono (left) in a huddle with American magazine photographer Linda Eastman - the wife of the "second boss" of the Beatles British Paul McCartney  - while the band in the background rehearsed in a studio for their impending recording of new rock songs).

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.

"The End" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 album Abbey Road. It was composed by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was the last song recorded collectively by all four Beatles, and is the final song of the medley that constitutes the majority of side two of the album. The song features one of the few drum solos recorded by Ringo Starr. (Wikipidea)