“Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” by Paul & Linda McCartney
From the 1971 album Ram

Since today’s “Beatles Day,” I felt I needed to do something Beatles related here. Even though Sgt. Pepper was one of the seminal albums that ushered in the prog rock era, it’s hard to argue that the Beatles were ever prog themselves. Perhaps the suite on side 2 of Abbey Road is as close as it gets.

But I didn’t even bother to search for any Beatles videos on YouTube: if there are any, and they’re official, embedding will probably be disabled; if they’re not official, they’ll probably get yanked if they haven’t already. So, post-Beatles solo tracks it is.

If any Beatle was prog-minded, it was definitely Paul McCartney, and some of his later solo work definitely had tinges of prog, especially tracks like “Band on the Run” and “Live and Let Die.”

Here’s another proggish track, from McCartney’s 1971 debut solo album.