The Beatles: "Taxman" arranged brass quartet
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Arranged brass quartet 2 tpt, tbn and tuba. Alternative horn in F part for trombone
Melody is trumpet verse 1 and 2, trombone verses 3 and 4 Trombone takes ad lib break
Transposed into Eb from D to aid performance. Tuba has the fun bass line.
"Taxman" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. Written by the group's lead guitarist, George Harrison, with some lyrical assistance from John Lennon, it protests against the higher level of progressive tax imposed in the United Kingdom by the Labour government of Harold Wilson, which saw the Beatles paying over 90 per cent of their earnings to the Treasury.
The song was selected as the album's opening track and contributed to Harrison's emergence as a songwriter beside the dominant Lennon-McCartney partnership. It was the group's first topical song and the first political statement they had made in their music.