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MusicRadar readers voted Taxman as the number 13 greatest bassline of all time, and with good reason: it's the main musical hook in a song that's overflowing with them.

George Harrison's biting piece of social commentary was his first major-league composition (it was awarded the first spot on The Beatles' landmark Revolver album), but it would be unthinkable without McCartney's elastic, memorable bass riffery.

And that's McCartney doing the crazed, early psychedelic guitar solo (repeated at the end). Not too shabby, eh?

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