“The Beatles said in their fan magazine after the tour they were pleased with the reception from the fans in Manila,” he said.<\/p>\n
“And there are still fans in the Philippines who name their children after Beatles songs.”<\/p>\n
As it turned out, the visit to the Philippines marked the band’s penultimate tour.<\/p>\n
“What happened in Manila wasn’t so much a nail in the coffin more a bag of nails,” the author said. <\/p>\n
He said they were moving on creatively and becoming tired of being on the road, a month later releasing their album Revolver.<\/p>\n
“It was technically more sophisticated and would have been harder to play live given the technology of the time,” Guerrero said.<\/p>\n
Leigh added: “They just hated touring by then – hence they created a fictitious band, Sgt Pepper.<\/p>\n
“They were operating in a new territory and you can see that all the major acts were wondering about what was coming next – Presley, Stones, Dylan.”<\/p>\n
The president and his wife were also going through a transition – from being described by Life magazine as the “JFK and Jackie of Asia” to Ferdinand and his regime becoming synonymous with corruption and human rights abuses.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Imelda’s massive indulgences became legendary, with stories abounding including her 3,000-strong collection of designer shoes.<\/p>\n
It was, perhaps, a meeting between music royalty and Filipino extravagance that was destined never to have happened, Leigh said.<\/p>\n
He added: “Looking back of course, the Beatles were glad not to have met the Marcos family.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“The Beatles said in their fan magazine after the tour they were pleased with the reception from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-526499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}