David Peel - John Lennon for President [COMPACT DISCS] USA import

Performance Records

David Peel - John Lennon for President [COMPACT DISCS]

Artist: David Peel

Title: John Lennon for President

Condition: New

Format: COMPACT DISCS

Release Date: 2000

Label: Performance Records

UPC: 095451600220

Genre: Oldies

Album Tracks

1. John Lennon for President Speech
2. John Lennon for President, Pt. 1
3. Yoko Ono Interview
4. Amerika
5. Rock 'N' Roll Preamble/John Lennon for President Speech
6. John Lennon for President, Pt. 2
7. Imagine
8. John & Yoko Interview
9. John Lennon for President [Live]
10. Imagine - David Peel
11. Pope Smokes Dope

In view of subsequent events, this album and it's 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, and politics 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. Bruce Eder