LETTERS TO JOHN

David Peel — Spoken Letters to John Lennon

"Miss you, man."

Short letters to a friend who isn't here anymore. What would David Peel tell John Lennon if he walked into Tompkins Square Park tomorrow?

Not sad. Not sentimental. Just honest. The way they used to talk.

THE LETTERS

Letter 1: "They Put Music in a Phone"

They pay you a third of a penny every time somebody plays your song. Everybody's got the music now. They're just not singing. They're scrolling.

1:08

Letter 2: "They Made the Village Expensive"

The building where we recorded Have a Marijuana is a bank. Our rebellion is their wallpaper. The Village is still there. The village is gone.

2:00

Letter 3: "A Machine Writes Songs Now"

A machine is reading this letter in my voice. I didn't write it and I'm not saying it and somehow it still sounds like me. A machine can write a song. But it can't need to.

2:09

Letter 4: "Yoko Was Right"

She was the bravest person in every room she walked into. Including the rooms you were in, John.

1:35

Letter 5: "December 8th"

Forty-five years of walking past the Dakota on December 8th. The doorman changed. The awning changed. The walk didn't change. Some things you do until you can't do them anymore.

2:01

"Still walking past the Dakota. Still can't look up at those windows without hearing Strawberry Fields in my head. The music's still there. Somebody just needs to play it louder."

Letters to John is a production of the L.U.V. Army. Voice: David Peel.