TAXMAN-BEATLES COVER

A.D.T. LEAD + 2 BACKING VOCALS.
Harrison said, "'Taxman' was when I first realised that even though we had started earning money, we were actually giving most of it away in taxes. It was and still is typical." The Beatles' large earnings placed them in the top tax bracket in the United Kingdom, liable to a 95% supertax introduced by Harold Wilson's Labour government. In a 1984 interview with Playboy magazine, Paul McCartney agreed: "George wrote that and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what he'll do with your money."
In 1980, Lennon recalled in an interview with Playboy magazine, "I remember the day he [Harrison] called to ask for help on 'Taxman', one of his first songs. I threw in a few one-liners to help the song along, because that's what he asked for. He came to me because he couldn't go to Paul, because Paul wouldn't have helped him at that period. I didn't want to do it... I just sort of bit my tongue and said OK. It had been John and Paul for so long, he'd been left out because he hadn't been a songwriter up until then."
The backing vocals' references to "Mr. Wilson" and "Mr. Heath", suggested by Lennon, refer respectively to Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, the then-leaders of the Labour Party and Conservative Party, the two largest parties in British politics. Wilson, who was then Prime Minister, had nominated all four of the Beatles as Members of the Order of the British Empire just the previous year.[1] The chanted names replaced two refrains of "Anybody got a bit of money?" heard in take 11, an earlier version released on Anthology 2 in 1996.
In 1987, Harrison stated that he had been pleased McCartney agreed to play the guitar on "Taxman": "I was pleased to have Paul play that bit on 'Taxman'. If you notice, he did like a little Indian bit on it for me."[8] Ian MacDonald praised McCartney's contributions to the song saying his guitar solo was "outstanding" and his bass part was "remarkable".

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Another excellent performance-Fantastic!