Well, yeah. Decimalisation was 1971. Revolver was 1966. More pertinent is the fact that the top rate of tax really was nineteen shillings in the pound (95%). It scarcely seems possible today, but effectively all income above a certain level was confiscated by the State. That the long decline in Britain’s fortunes was arrested and then reversed during the Thatcher era was not unrelated to the fact that such swingeing levels of taxation were abolished. Even the catastrophically incompetent Gordon Brown has thus far overseen a rise in tax to only half that of the Wilson regime.

If you actually are not worried about your taxes going up (as was Rogers real point I think)and want something for the lights to come down, try Esquivel

Best Beatles album is Rubber Soul – although I certainly agree that Revolver is the most technically accomplished. But let’s face it, Revolver don’t get no girl reaction. But Rubber Soul – Norwegian Wood, Michelle, and In My Life – those turn the lights down low.

JOHN 1969: “Paul and I are now working on a kind of song montage that we might do as one piece on one side. We’ve got two weeks to finish the whole thing so we’re really working at it. All the songs we’re doing sound normal to me, but probably they might sound unusual to you. There’s no ‘Revolution #9′ there, but there’s a few heavy sounds. I couldn’t pin us down to being on a heavy scene, or a commercial pop scene, or a straight tuneful scene. We’re just on whatever’s going. Just rockin’ along.”

PAUL 1969: “I think there’s not a bad track on it… and then the long one. The whole of the long one. The whole of the end bit. I think that works good.”

GEORGE 1969: “It feels very abstract to me, but it all gels and fits together. I think it’s a very good album.”

RINGO 1969: “And then it sort of slows down a bit, into ‘Golden Slumbers’ which is a nice heavy lullaby. You know, if you could sleep through it, it’d be a miricle. And then ‘Carry That Weight’ is like two bits all together, two distictly different bits. And we all sing, ‘Boy, you’re gonna carry that weight’ in unison, then those parts come in.”

JOHN 1969: “We always have tons of bits and pieces lying around. I’ve got stuff I wrote around Pepper, because you lose interest after you’ve had it for years. It was a good way of getting rid of bits of songs. In fact, George and Ringo wrote bits of it… literally in between bits and breaks. Paul would say, ‘We’ve got twelve bars here– fill it in,’ and we’d fill it in on the spot. As far as we’re concerned, this album is more ‘Beatley’ than the double (White) album.”

RINGO 1976: “The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite. I love it. ‘She Came In Through The Bathroom Window,’ and all those bits that weren’t songs, I mean, they were just all the bits that John and Paul had around that we roped together.”