Should five per cent appear too small,Meanwhile, George had this to say about visiting Haight-Ashbury during the Summer of Love:
Be thankful I don't take it all.
'Cause I’m the taxman,
Yeah, I’m the taxman.
(if you drive a car, car;) - I’ll tax the street;
(if you try to sit, sit;) - I’ll tax your seat;
(if you get too cold, cold;) - I’ll tax the heat;
(if you take a walk, walk;) - I'll tax your feet.
I went there expecting it to be a brilliant place, with groovy gypsy people making works of art and paintings and carvings in little workshops. But it was full of horrible spotty drop-out kids on drugs, and it turned me right off the whole scene. I could only describe it as being like the Bowery: a lot of bums and drop-outs; many of them very young kids who'd dropped acid and come from all over America to this mecca of LSD.So for all his love & peace blah blah blah, Harrison hated 1) taxes 2) hippies.
George Harrison: The Tea Party Beatle?
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At the time, George's rate would have been 90%, so his tax conservatism is well-earned. As for the hippies, in the end, of all the time-specific personas, from the dandy to the flapper to the greser to the punk, is there anyone more odious and ridiculous as the hippie? I submit not.
OCCUPY ABBEY ROAD
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