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.).
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