John Lennon John Lennon Talks About David Peel vinyl is a numbered edition of only 500 copies pressed by Noiseville Records, originally issued in 1993 to promote the War and Anarchy album, and now offered from the last remaining copies of the original Noiseville stash. When the label offers items from an original pressing numbered at 500, the math about availability is straightforward.
John Lennon John Lennon Talks About David Peel vinyl
David Peel was a New York street musician and activist who made records for Elektra and Apple Records in the early 1970s with John Lennon’s direct involvement and production. Lennon produced Peel’s album The Pope Smokes Dope for Apple in 1972, and the connection between the two reflected Lennon’s engagement with the radical political scene in New York during that specific period of his life. Peel’s music was confrontational, deliberately topical, and positioned entirely outside the mainstream in a way that matched Lennon’s own political activity during those years in the United States.
What This 7-Inch Contains
Side A is John Lennon speaking about David Peel, which makes this a primary document of that specific relationship from Lennon’s own perspective and in his own words. Side B is No More Nukes, which fits the anti-nuclear politics Lennon maintained throughout the 1970s. The release was authorized and originally pressed to promote the War and Anarchy album in 1993. The numbered edition was limited to 500 copies, and this is from the remaining Noiseville inventory rather than a new pressing of any kind.
The Scarcity Factor
When a label offers remaining stock from an original pressing numbered to 500 copies, there is no ambiguity about what that means for availability. The combination of John Lennon’s voice on record with direct content about a genuine historical relationship in the New York radical art scene makes this a document that Lennon collectors and Beatles historians both want. Original Noiseville stash copies with consistent numbering represent a window that closes permanently once the inventory is gone.
The John Lennon connection makes this 7-inch the kind of document that belongs in collections far beyond the specialist audience for David Peel’s music. It is a physical piece of the relationship between two figures who shared a specific political and creative moment in New York in the early 1970s, and with 500 copies pressed and this being the remaining Noiseville stash, the window for owning that moment in the vinyl format is genuinely limited.
Tracklist
1. JOHN LENNON TALKS ABOUT DAVID PEEL 2. NO MORE NUKES
