Jul 11, 2021
I think Face to Face is the first rock album for adults; Revolver (with "Taxman") was recorded at the same time (and released a bit earlier), but it still has traces of teenage angst.
Re your Spanish taxman: 8 years later, Ray Davies would remind us that nothing lasts forever:
But the message of Preservation Act 2 seems to be that although "nations crumble and empires fall," government always manages to survive.