is the eleventh UK single release by the Jam and their second number-one, following "Going Underground"/"Dreams of Children".
[5] "To be Someone" and "Liza Radley" also utilise the "Taxman" bassline as does "Dreams of Children", B-side to "Going Underground", played then as a lead guitar riff.
[6][7] Bassist Bruce Foxton commented on the similarity: We were listening a lot to the Beatles' Revolver album.
Foxton noted that the commercial success of the single added pressure for the band, explaining, "That was the Number One that knocked David Bowie off the top of the charts.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band covered the song on their 1987 album "Masque" under the title "What You Give Is What You Get (Start)".