At least Lennon recognized that “Revolution” - the Single Version - was a very counter-revolutionary song. ‘If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow.’ ‘Taxman’ is also a great conservative protest song.
$10,000 question....What does “Beatles” mean?
“Help!” was made offshore as a tax-holiday for the boys to escape the British tax system. Hypocrites one and all. Never did explain to Pete Best why he was kicked out of the band. All that talk of peace and love and Paul & John only ever got together 2 nights (to do some blow in the studio with Stevie Wonder) after the Beatles broke up.
Nice of them to talk of putting difference aside and singing Kumbaya when they couldn’t even mend their own friendships.
That song was created when they discovered that England's surtax (soak the rich - does that sound familiar?) rate was 95%.
Maggie gets credit for fixing that later....
Very true. Taxman was a George song? One person here said George was an airhead but he was supposedly just a nice man who work with two fairly unpleasant people who froze him out of song writing.
Sex Pistols “Bodies” is a semi-anti abortion song. It was all about personal responsibility. John Lydon said it was not pro or anti abortion. When you hear the song you know it is anti.