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Top 30 Greatest Guitar Solos Of All Time


These guitar solos are certified face-melters. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most memorable lightning-lead guitar performances of all time! Our countdown of the top guitar solos of all time includes Ace Frehley from KISS’ “Love Gun”, Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption”, Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing”, Brian May from Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”, Slash from Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child o’ Mine”, and more! Which guitar solo gives YOU the chills! Let us know in the comments!

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50 thoughts on “Top 30 Greatest Guitar Solos Of All Time

  • I think in WatchMojo they hate ACDC, because in either one of their tops of best solos there is no Angus Young badass solos…

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  • Iron Maiden
    Megadeth
    Judas Priest
    Testament
    Like what even is this list??? I dont disagree with Stairway and jimmi Hendrix and Ozzy's guitarist but this list is a travesty

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  • Tom Morello's Outro when performing live with Bruce Springsteen on "the Ghost Of Tom Joad" (which was release on an EP) was also awesome.

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  • I really think that Prince's Purple Rain guitar solo should be much higher on your list. How is it not in your top ten? Sometimes your lists can definitely miss the mark.

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  • Why isn't the Richie Sambora guitar solo from Bon Jovi's "Dry County" on the list?

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  • Although I love Radiohead, RATM, white stripes etc but putting them in list list? And also above eurption? ????

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  • Keith Richards From The Rolling Stones Sympathy For The Devil and Ace Frehley From Kiss' Love Gun and Tony Iomni From Black Sabbath's Paranoid and Kirk Hammett From Metallica's Fade To Black and Randy Rhoads For Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train and Jeff Beck's Cause We've Ended As Lovers and Eric Clapton For The Beatles While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Prince & The Revolution's Purple Rain and Carlo's Santana's Black Magic Woman and Eddie Van Halen's Eruption and Alex Lifeson From Rush's Freewill and Tom Morello From Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name and Jack White From The White Stripes Icky Thump and Ritchie Blackmore From Deep Purple's Highway Star and Mark Knopfler From Dire Straits' Sultans Of Swing and Johnny Greenwood From Radiohead's Paranoid Android and Eric Clapton From Cream's Crossroads and Brian May From Queen's Brighton Rock and Allen Collins & Gary Rossington From Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird and Slash From Guns N' Roses November Rain and Randy Rhoads For Ozzy Osbourne's Mr. Crowley and David Gilmour From Pink Floyd's Dogs and Brian May From Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and Stevie Ray Vaughn's Texas Flood and Eddie Van Halen From Michael Jackson's Beat It and Don Felder & Joe Walsh From Eagles Hotel California and Slash From Guns N' Roses Sweet Child O' Mine and Jimi Hendrix From The Jimi Hendrix Experience's All Along The Watchtower and David Gilmour From Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb and Jimmy Page From Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven gives me the chills on the phone

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  • Yuck. So many omissions, so many mistakes in ranking. You people are deaf, obviously.

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  • Before watching , if November Rain, Comfortably numb , Eruption , Sultans of Swing , and anything by Jeff Beck arent here ,I Riot

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  • No afterlife from avenged sevenfold or anything from acdc, pantera, megadeth and iron maiden? Whoever made this list is delusional

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  • No afterlife from avenged sevenfold or anything from acdc, pantera, megadeth and iron maiden? Whoever made this list is delusional

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  • Prince’s solo on My Guitar Gently Weeps is the best, most musical solo I’ve heard. Not making this list is trash

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  • The REAL top 20 Solos
    1. Pink Floyd – Comfortably numb
    2. Led Zeppelin – Since i've been loving you
    3. Queen – You don't fool me
    4. Dire Straits – Sultans
    5. Pink Floyd – Time
    6. Led Zeppelin – Stairway
    7. EAGLES – Hotel Cali
    8. Dire Straits – Tunnel of love
    9. Pink Floyd – High Hopes
    10. Pink Floyd – Have a Cigar
    11. Dire Straits – Telegraph road
    12. Pink Floyd – Echoes (Pompei)
    13. Pink Floyd – Dogs
    14. QUEEN – Bohemian Rhapsody
    15. Guns & Roses – November rain
    16. Led Zeppelin – 10 years gone
    17. Queen – Killer Queen
    18. Jimi Hendrix – Watch tower
    19. Queen – We will rock you
    20. Pink Floyd – Money

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  • Rock Around The Clock by Bill Haley has the best guitar solo in rock history! The birth of speed metal!

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  • Some of my favs that weren’t mentioned:
    Floods – Dimebag
    Tempest – Adam Jones
    Tornado of Souls – Marty Friedman
    One – Kirk Hammett
    Three Days – Dave Navarro

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  • The fact that Gilmour have 2 solos in the top 10, and others like Time, Hey You, High Hopes, and Another Brick in the Wall pt II were left out, speaks tons of what a great soloist he is

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