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Wow, but I don't think I've seen anyone post this one yet: Roundabout by Yes.

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Prince has tons of great synth and piano solos on his or The Time records. He had a nice feel on monosynth.

 

Agreed, though Dr. Fink had some great ones on those records too. My favorite is "Head." I have a live bootleg of it where Prince introduces Fink after the solo, and says "If you can't play a synthesizer like that, don't play one!"

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Uncertain Smile - The The. Over three minutes of Piano soloing by Jools Holland.

 

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This is the Day - The The. Wix Wickens of Paul McCartney's band takes a few Accordion solos.

 

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Jeanette - English Beat. Jack Emblow who played on The Beatles' "All You Need is Love" gets in some hot Accordion licks.

 

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Yacht rock icon and gigantic hit from 1980, Sailing - Christopher Cross. Micheal Omartian plays so much great piano on this album as well as his perfect arrangement and production. The piano break is awesome, cycling through an uncommon chordal sequence to bring it back to A major. A great pop tune. Also love his piano playing on all those old Steely Dan songs - Doctor Wu, Gold Teeth II, etc.

 

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Wow, but I don't think I've seen anyone post this one yet: Roundabout by Yes.

I think we're purposefully staying away from Prog. If we included it, it would include half all the greatest solos, the other half would be jazz/blues. We're keeping it to "Pop" and by that we mean 4-minute, top-40 hits. I know Roundabout is a huge hit, but it's kind of an outlier. Same reason "Highway Star" hasn't come up, I think most of us consider Deep Purple to be prog.

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