Saturday, August 18, 2018

"Taxman"

I listened to Revolver this evening and noticed a small thing about "Taxman."  The first line ("Let me tell you how it will be") is essentially the same as the first line in Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" ("I'm a-gonna tell you how it's gonna be").  Buddy Holly certainly influenced the Beatles, and I think the resemblance between these two opening lines (whether conscious or not) is an-other example of that, despite "Taxman" and "Not Fade Away" being about very different things.