Top 50 Greatest Guitar Solos Of All Time

Here’s a list of every solo in the video along with the person who performed it and the band they’re from:

1. Comfortably Numb - David Gilmour | Pink Floyd
2. Stairway to Heaven - Jimmy Page | Led Zeppelin
3. Free Bird - Allen Collins & Gary Rossington | Lynyrd Skynyrd
4. Hotel California - Joe Walsh & Don Felder | Eagles
5. All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix | The Jimi Hendrix Experience
6. Eruption - Eddie Van Halen | Van Halen
7. Bohemian Rhapsody - Brian May | Queen
8. Something - George Harrison | The Beatles
9. Sultans of Swing - Mark Knopfler | Dire Straits
10. Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix | The Jimi Hendrix Experience
11. Highway Star - Ritchie Blackmore | Deep Purple
12. Crossroads - Eric Clapton | Cream
13. Mr. Crowley - Randy Rhoads | Ozzy Osbourne
14. Time - David Gilmour | Pink Floyd
15. Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan | Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
16. Whipping Post - Duane Allman & Dickey Betts | The Allman Brothers Band
17. Tornado of Souls - Marty Friedman | Megadeth
18. 25 or 6 to 4 - Terry Kath | Chicago
19. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Eric Clapton | The Beatles
20. Since I’ve Been Loving You - Jimmy Page | Led Zeppelin
21. Reelin’ In The Years - Elliott Randall | Steely Dan
22. Child In Time - Ritchie Blackmore | Deep Purple
23. November Rain - Slash | Guns N’ Roses
24. One - Kirk Hammett | Metallica
25. Gimme Shelter - Keith Richards | The Rolling Stones
26. Paranoid Android - Jonny Greenwood | Radiohead
27. Maggot Brain - Eddie Hazel | Funkadelic
28. Hot for Teacher - Eddie Van Halen | Van Halen
29. Beyond the Realms of Death - Glenn Tipton | Judas Priest
30. Sweet Child O’ Mine - Slash | Guns N’ Roses
31. Dogs - David Gilmour | Pink Floyd
32. White Room - Eric Clapton | Cream
33. La Grange - Billy Gibbons | ZZ Top
34. For the Love of God - Steve Vai | Steve Vai
35. Machine Gun - Jimi Hendrix | The Jimi Hendrix Experience
36. Purple Rain - Prince | Prince and the Revolution
37. Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson | Eric Johnson
38. La Villa Strangiato - Alex Lifeson | Rush
39. Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix | The Jimi Hendrix Experience
40. Floods - Dimebag Darrell | Pantera
41. Let It Be - George Harrison | The Beatles
42. Gypsy - Lindsey Buckingham | Fleetwood Mac
43. Sympathy for the Devil - Keith Richards | The Rolling Stones
44. Achilles Last Stand - Jimmy Page | Led Zeppelin
45. Fade to Black - Kirk Hammett | Metallica
46. Alive - Mike McCready | Pearl Jam
47. Hangar 18 - Marty Friedman | Megadeth
48. Killing In the Name - Tom Morello | Rage Against the Machine
49. Back In Black - Angus Young | AC/DC
50. Crazy Train - Randy Rhoads | Ozzy Osbourne

[misterb]

I feel like we live in a world where people don’t have the patience to appreciate a good guitar solo. Let alone these great ones.

[ViktorCZ]

Randy Rhoads: 2x
Angus Young: 1x
Tom Morello: 1x
Marty Friedman: 2x
Mike McCready: 1x
Kirk Hammett: 2x
Jimmy Page: 3x
Keith Richards: 2x
Lindsey Buckingham: 1x
George Harrison: 2x
Dimebag Darrell: 1x
Jimi Hendrix: 4x
Alex Lifeson: 1x
Eric Johnson: 1x
Prince: 1x
Steve Vai: 1x
Billy Gibbons: 1x
Eric Clapton: 3x
David Gilmour: 3x
Slash: 2x
Glenn Tipton: 1x
Eddie Van Halen: 2x
Eddie Hazel: 1x
Jonny Greenwood: 1x
Ritchie Blackmore: 2x
Elliott Randal: 1x
Terry Kath: 1x
Duane Allman and Dickey Betts: 1x
Stevie Ray Vaughan: 1x
Mark Knofler: 1x
Brian May: 1x
Joe Walsh and Don Felder: 1x
Allen Collins and Gary Rossington: 1x

Top Five are:
1. Jimi Hendrix
2. David Gilmour
3. Jimmy Page
4. Eric Cplaton
5. Keith Richards

HOPEFULLY ALL CORRECT :)

[CentipedeMKDS]

Comfortably Numb on Pulse is like being in heaven

[зот]

I love that Marty's on the list twice, that makes me happy

[camarao]

Achilles Last Stand definitely deserved to be here

[nickkaltz]

Genesis -Steve Hackett-Firth of fifth
Jethro tull- Martin Barre- Aqualung
Mountain- Leslie West - Theme for an imaginary western
Steely dan - Larry Carlton - Kid Charlemagne
Roxy music- Phil Manzanera- If there is something (Live from viva!)
Camel - Andrew Latimer - Ice
Coverdale Page - Jimmy Page- Don't leave me this way
Santana - Carlos Santana - Taboo
Thin Lizzy - Scott Gorham- Still in love with you (live)
Ten years after-Alvin Lee - I woke up this morning

[ChiEsp]

Man the solo of confortably numb is the best one EVER Gilmour did the best solo of all history and in my opinion is almost impossible to beat that epic solo of 2-3 minutes

[patriotusa]

Voodoo Chile Slight Return for me is the absolute best guitar solo I've ever heard. Hendrix was the greatest.

[matthewbartlett]

Appreciate the love for alive. IMO one of the best outro solos ever

[raggeragnar]

Besides these 50 excellent ones, I’d like to add my personal honourable mentions :
Bad religion-21st century(digital boy)
The Cult-Sweet soul sister
Jimi Hendrix-Hey Joe
Rainbow-Since you’ve been gone
Judas priest-Living after midnight
Toto-Hold the line
D•A•D - Point of view
Eurythmics-When tomorrow comes

I like these ones too.

[tegarsatriani]

I love this music page.

Other accounts usually devalue Deep Purple in their lists, or don't even include Deep Purple in the discussion at all. But this page is by far the most objective of the lot.

Judgment is based on quality, not just taste and hate.

only one wish: Eruption - Eddie van Halen must be in the top 3

[WhoFan]

Solid list. Credit for having "25 Or 6 To 4" in the Top 20 and having the rocks to place "Numb" ahead of "Heaven" (which I agree with).

[MOET]

You included #21 & #22 so this list succeeds, one I thought of was Gary Moore's Still got the blues

[taco]

It's sad that people don't like guitar solos these days.

[hayato]

I feel like killer queen guitar solo should make the list, may not be as complex as some of these but sounds amazing

[stevstevstevrich]

My personal favourite guitar solo is from Time, which also happens to be my favourite song of all time. Some others I'd have included are The End (John Lennon, George Harrison and Paul McCartney) and 21st Century Schizoid Man (Robert Fripp), although I do understand that the latter is not everyone's thing.

[reflection]

Of all the amazing Fleetwood Mac solos you could've picked, GYPSY? Really? The most girly 80s pop song from them. You had a plethora of options from them. I'm So Afraid, Go Your Own Way, Blue Letter, Black Magic Woman, Tell Me All The Things You Do, the list goes on

[demonslayer]

Firth of fifth by Steve Hackett is always left out of lists. It’s probably the most underrated guitar solo. It could easily be in the top 25 or even top 10.

[agorak]

As I always say - Alex Lifeson is so underrated ♥️🎸🧙🏼‍♀️

[yetidk_ssb]

Whole lotta love with the breaks and the guitar licks