{"id":2569,"date":"2026-06-08T15:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:09:32","slug":"3-loud-beatles-songs-that-foreshadowed-punk-and-heavy-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/3-loud-beatles-songs-that-foreshadowed-punk-and-heavy-metal\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Loud Beatles Songs That Foreshadowed Punk and Heavy Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Though punk and heavy metal are two very different genres, they each arrived from similar places. If you go back far enough, you\u2019ll wind up in the Mississippi Delta. But eventually you\u2019ll land in England. The Kinks\u2019 distorted riff on \u201cYou Really Got Me\u201d and other garage rockers were precursors to punk. And though Black Sabbath pioneered heavy metal, it\u2019s hard to imagine Tony Iommi\u2019s riffs without Cream\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/facts\/cream\/sunshine-of-your-love\">\u201cSunshine Of Your Love\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, we don\u2019t immediately think of The Beatles as punk or heavy metal. But these songs prove The Fab Four were as punk and metal as those genres\u2019 pioneers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cTaxman\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Beatles - Taxman\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gMdcE8jdz70?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>George Harrison revolted against Britain\u2019s government after The Beatles\u2019 blockbuster success had produced massive tax receipts. He built the protest song around a stabbing guitar riff, which reveals punk\u2019s garage rock roots. 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It\u2019s the kind of global rage against the machine later echoed by The Clash and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Let me tell you how it will be,<br>There&#8217;s one for you, nineteen for me,<br>Cause I\u2019m the Taxman,<br>Yeah, I\u2019m the Taxman<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cHelter Skelter\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Helter Skelter (Remastered 2009)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vWW2SzoAXMo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>McCartney once read an interview with Pete Townshend, who had described a song he\u2019d written as \u201cthe most ridiculous rock \u2019n\u2019 roll record you\u2019ve ever heard.\u201d So Macca approached The Beatles and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beatles-Anthology\/dp\/0811836363?tag=thebeabib06-20&amp;geniuslink=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>, \u201cI think we should do a song like that; something really wild.\u201d It worked and it even left Ringo Starr shouting about the blisters on his fingers. The title refers to a fairground ride, but was later adopted by Charles Manson as a dark anthem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>When I get to the bottom, I go back to the top of the slide,<br>Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride,<br>Till I get to the bottom, and I see you again,<br>Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cI Want You (She\u2019s So Heavy)\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Want You (She&#039;s So Heavy) (Remastered 2009)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tAe2Q_LhY8g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While Cream, Black Sabbath, and Led Zeppelin are credited with transforming heavy blues into what became heavy metal, The Beatles did something similar on this epic from <em>Abbey Road<\/em>. 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