This 1971 record from Paul McCartney and his late wife Linda is one of his most well-known (and well-loved) solo albums. Ram wasn’t the smooth, polished, perfect album that fans had come to expect from McCartney. Rather, it was experimental, loose, and involved a more episodic style of songwriting than his previous works.

Despite being one of the world’s most famous songwriters, Paul McCartney faced crippling self doubt that he was forced to work through during a difficult era of music making