Genre: Apple Records
Places I remember: From Noel Forth back in the seventies
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: The Ballad Of New York City - John Lennon/Yoko Ono
Gear costume: The Hippie From New York City
Active compensatory factors: If not for the Apple Records/Lennon/Ono connections I would not be interested in this stuff. I mean - F Is Not A Dirty World, Everybodies Smoking Marijuana, MacDonald's Farm, Birth Control Blues - it's all pretty juvenile. And it hasn't aged well at all.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: The Ballad Of New York City - John Lennon/Yoko Ono
Gear costume: The Hippie From New York City
Active compensatory factors: If not for the Apple Records/Lennon/Ono connections I would not be interested in this stuff. I mean - F Is Not A Dirty World, Everybodies Smoking Marijuana, MacDonald's Farm, Birth Control Blues - it's all pretty juvenile. And it hasn't aged well at all.
David Peel wasn't real, John! He was a chancer who somehow connected with the Lennons with his acoustic street music. - maybe the skiffle element reminded John of the Quarrymen but The Lower East Side (the group) are a pretty ragtag bunch. Here's John explaining how he and Yoko got together with them.
The few (and I stress 'few') bright spots come when he dispenses with the scatalogic 'humour' and sings songs - The Ballad Of New York City and The Chicago Conspiracy are almost songs (mainly they are populist chants).
Where do they all belong? A one off for Apple Records (thank goodness).
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