Taxman

Title:	Taxman
Credits:	George Harrison
Recorded:	20th-22nd April, 16th May 1966, Abbey Road 2; 21st June Abbey Road 3
Line- up:	Harrison vocal ,lead guitar; Lennon backing vocal; McCartney backing vocal, bass, lead guitar; Starr drums, tambourine, cowbell
Producer:	George Martin
Engineer:	Geoff Emerick
Location:	Revolver - track 1
UK Release:	5th August 1966 (LP: Revolver)
US Release:	8th August 1966 (LP: Revolver)

The opening title on Revolver, Taxman was George Harrison's acerbic and witty view of the inescapable realities of life. Take 12 was the master recording, this being a "reduction", or "bounce", of Take 11. (These are terms for a recording process, taken up by the Beatles around this time, where, by merging two or more existing tracks of a tape while copying it across to a second tape, vacant tracks are created, allowing for further overdubbing. Abbey Road was still using four-track recording machines in 1966, so this process was often necessary.)

Taxman by far the best George Harrison composition yet, featured a string guitar solo (repeated again at the end of the song) and a dig at the major British politicians of the day, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath.

Time	(( What The?? ))
0:35 - 0:37	Right channel drops out
0:42 - 0:44	Again right channel drops out possibly to remove unwanted noise or vocal
0:47	A woosh can be heard during the cowbell hits
1:38, 1:45	"Ah ah Mr Wilson/ Heath" dropped into lead guitar track, perhaps due to the change in lyric from take 11 (right channel)

Title:	Taxman - Take 11
Credits:	George Harrison
Recorded:	21st April, Abbey Road 2
Line- up:	Harrison vocal, lead guitar; Lennon backing vocal; McCartney backing vocal, bass, lead guitar; Starr drums, tambourine, cowbell
Producer:	George Martin
Engineer:	Geoff Emerick
Location:	Anthology 2 - disc 1, track 20
UK Release:	5th August 1966 (LP: Revolver)
US Release:	8th August 1966 (LP: Revolver)

Issued here for the first time is Take 11, not dissimilar to the master but with some notable differences, principally in the clean, full ending (instead of the repeated guitar solo) and the "anybody got a bit of money?" backing vocals (instead of the "Mister Wilson, Mister Heath" reference).