Prog or not – Beatles or not

Writing about the word “progessive” recently I did mention the Prog Magazine’s Facebook had banned the “is it prog?” question. Not entirely successfully, although Is uspect they left a recent on which asked the question of The Carpenters’ version of “Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft” without seemingly any ironic intent whatsoever. As any fule kno the original was by Klaatu, best known for being misidentified as “The Beatles reformed” but actually a quite respectable group in their own right. You can read more about them here. They may well be “prog”, maybe even progressive by the definition I set last time, but The Carpenters? Sorry no. Even if I do have a soft spot for their really rather good pop version of the song. Compare and contrast here.