04-15-2010, 11:55 PM
M>B> wrote:
Harrison said, "'Taxman' was when I first realised that even though we had started earning money, we were actually giving most of it away in taxes. It was and still is typical."[4] The Beatles' large earnings placed them in the top tax bracket in the United Kingdom, liable to a 95% supertax introduced by Harold Wilson's Labour government.[5] In a 1984 interview with Playboy magazine, Paul McCartney agreed: "George wrote that and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what he'll do with your money."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxman
Those taxes are responsible for many tragedies.
For example, to avoid taxes, the rock group Queen stayed in France for more than 6 months and the disco music there encouraged them to move from real instruments to synth.