Editing Revolver (Beatles album) (section)

==== "Taxman" ====
{{listen|pos=left|filename= The guitar solo from "Taxman" by the Beatles, April 1966.ogg|title=The guitar solo from "Taxman"|description= Womack characterises the solo as "like nothing else in the Beatles' corpus to date; for that matter, it hardly bears any resemblance to anything in the history of recorded music." He credits the track with "announc[ing] a sweeping shift in the essential nature" of the Beatles' sound.{{sfn|Womack|2007|p=136}}}}

Harrison wrote "[[Taxman]]" as a protest against the high marginal [[tax rate]]s paid by top earners like the Beatles, which, under [[Harold Wilson]]'s [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] government,{{sfn|MacDonald|2005|pp=14, 200}} amounted to 95 per cent of [[unearned income]] (i.e. interest on savings and investments) above the top threshold.{{sfn|Everett|1999|p=48}}{{refn|group=nb|According to MacDonald, this was the "price" the Beatles paid alongside their being appointed [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]]s in September 1965.{{sfn|MacDonald|2005|pp=200, 426}} Aside from the financial imposition, Harrison was alarmed that the money was being used to fund the manufacture of military weapons.{{sfn|Turner|2016|p=131}}}} The song's spoken count-in is out of tempo with the performance that follows,{{sfn|Womack|2007|p=135}} a device that Riley credits with establishing the "new studio aesthetic of ''Revolver''".{{sfn|Riley|2002|p=182}} Harrison's vocals on the track were treated with heavy compression and ADT.{{sfn|Everett|1999|p=48}} In addition to playing a [[Glissando|glissandi]]-inflected bass part reminiscent of Motown{{'s}} [[James Jamerson]], McCartney performed the song's guitar solo.{{sfn|Everett|1999|p=49}} The latter section was also edited onto the end of the original recording, ensuring that the track closed with the solo reprised over a fadeout.{{sfn|Everett|1999|p=48}}{{sfn|Lewisohn|2005|p=76}} Rodriguez recognises "Taxman" as the first Beatles song written about "topical concerns"; he also cites its "abrasive sneer" as a precursor to the 1970s [[punk rock]] movement.{{sfn|Rodriguez|2012|pp=xiii, 17}} Completed with input from Lennon,{{sfn|MacDonald|2005|p=200}} the lyrics refer by name to Wilson, who had just been re-elected as prime minister in the [[1966 United Kingdom general election|1966 general election]], and [[Edward Heath]], the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom)|Leader of the Opposition]].{{sfn|Riley|2002|p=183}}