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David Peel 
Background information Birth name David Michael Rosario Origin Lower East Side, U.S. Genres Protopunk Years active 1968–Present Labels Elektra Records, Apple Records, Orange Records David Peel (born David Michael Rosario) is a New York-based musician who first recorded in the late 1960s with Harold Black, Billy Joe White, and Larry Adam performing as David Peel and The Lower East Side Band. His raw, acoustic "street rock" with lyrics about marijuana and "bad cops" appealed mostly to hippies.
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Biography
Peel in Washington Square Park, 1994 Pot Parade
Peel has appeared as himself in various films, including Please Stand By (1974), Rude Awakening (1989), High Times' Potluck (2004) and The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006).
David Peel's "America" is the theme song for Jack Milton's film: "Please Stand By", in which David Peel portrays and stars as a media hippie revolutionary, who hijacks a network television van and jams the airwaves with unauthorized radical broadcasts to the nation.
A photograph of Peel identified as Lennon turned up in the John Lennon's FBI files. [1]
See also
- The Lower East Side Band
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Categories:- Living people
- Musicians from New York City
- Apple Records artists
- American punk rock musicians
- Yippies
- Protopunk musicians
- Cannabis music
- Elektra Records artists
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