DAVID PEEL & APPLE BAND John Lennon For President (2009 issue UK 11-track CD album - In view of subsequent events, this album and its title now possess an unintended eeriness. But in 1980, it was just part of the landscape. In case no one remembers, in 1980 the U.S. went nuts. Not that this hadn't happened before, even during some recent campaign years, but this was the first time it coincided with a presidential race in which two incompetents were running against each other, andpolitics became the medium through which a lot of that nutsiness was expressed. In that environment, how could David Peel, master satirist, topical songwriter, marijuana advocate, peace activist, and musician provocateur, possibly resist the impulse to join in? The result is more mixed media than is usual for Peel, alternating between music, interviews, and speeches, all of it focused, and assuming that one has the tolerance for absurdity necessary to appreciate it, it's a fine coda to Peel's earlier Lennon-produced and Beatles-inspired work.) more...
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DAVID PEEL & APPLE BAND Bring Back The Beatles (2009 issue UK 15-track CD album - 'Bring Back The Beatles' was as close to a commercial album as David Peel had ever generated up to that time. Where his previous satirical barbs at musical figureswere incidental to his broader political messages, on this album he shifts his aim somewhat — his two-pronged message expresses an appreciation, even a level of respect, for the Liverpool group, but is also includes an implicit vicious swipe at the efforts in the mid-70s to remarket and repackage their music. Not quite everything here directly concerns the Beatles, and if Peel isn't quite as animated as he is when going after a political target, his songwriting ability isn't restricted at all, and in the relatively lush production he manages to come up with some surprisingly good [and excruciatingly funny] pop songs, including 'Coconut Grove'; he also turns in a rocking version of John Lennon's 'Imagine', reimagined as a punk piece. 'The Wonderful World of Abbey Road' shows Peel acknowledging their psychedelic period, especially 'Penny Lane', but he also works in a deconstruction of 'With a Little Help from My Friends' and some fresh barbs aimed at Paul McCartney.) more...
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DAVID PEEL & LOWER EAST SIDE And The Rest Is History (2006 UK issue 'Strictly Limited Edition' 21-track CD album bringing together the groundbreaking albums 'Have A Marijuana' [1968] & 'The American Revolution' [1970] from the street musician & political activist from the Lower East Side of New York City and tells of social reflections, urban tales & hippie mythology; including 2 previously unissued tracks, complete with picture booklet containingextensive sleevenotes written by David & lyrics, numbered picture sleeve) ** Limited to 7500 Copies ** more...
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DAVID PEEL & THE APPLE BAND The Battle For New York (1994 US 17-track CD album, featuring songs written in support of Howard Stern's campaign to become Governor of New York, sealed picture sleeve) more...
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DAVID PEEL & LOWER EAST SIDE Have A Marijuana (Ger. reissue CD) more...
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