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Taxman

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Taxman is a Rock act. Their sound grew out of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, James Brown and Lee Dorsey. Those roots explain a lot about how Taxman arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as DJ Hype, DJ Fresh, Bou, Calibre and Alix Perez, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Jam, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 13 connections around Taxman, reaching back through Booker T. & the M.G.'s and forward to The Jam. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

Background

"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.

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Taxman connections

Taxman grew out of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck and James Brown, shares an orbit with DJ Hype, DJ Fresh, Bou and Calibre, went on to shape The Jam. 13 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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