Top 100 Guitar Solos Of All-time
 

Readers' Poll from Guitarist magazine, January 1998 

	
01-Hotel California - The Eagles (Joe Walsh and Don Felder) 
2-Eruption - Van Halen (Edward Van Halen) 
3-Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd (David Gilmour) 
4-Crossroads - Cream (Eric Clapton) 
5-Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix 
6-Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore 
7-All Right Now - Free (Paul Kossoff) 
8-Since I've Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page) 
9-Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (Brian May) 
10-Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits (Mark Knopfler) 
11-All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix 
12-Shine You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd (David Gilmour) 
13-Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page) 
14-For The Love Of God - Steve Vai 
15-Still In Love With You - Thin Lizzy (Gary Moore) 
16-Child In Time - Deep Purple (Ritchie Blackmore) 
17-	Still Got the Blues (For You) - Gary Moore 
18-	Goodbye To Love - The Carpenters (Tony Peluso) 
19-	Purple Haze - The Jimi Hendrix Experience 
20-	Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits (Mark Knopfler) 
21-	Need Your Love So Bad - Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green) 
22-	Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses (Slash) 
23-	Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd (Ronnie Van Zant) 
24-	Layla - Derek and the Dominos (Eric Clapton [and Duane Allman]) 
25-	White Room - Cream (Eric Clapton) 
26-	Red House - Jimi Hendrix 
27-	Black Magic Woman - Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green) 
28-	Rosanna - Toto (Steve Lukather) 
29-	Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan 
30-	November Rain - Guns N' Roses (Slash) 
31-	The Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix 
32-	Ladies Nite In Buffalo - David Lee Roth (Steve Vai) 
33-	Hot For Teacher - Van Halen (Edward Van Halen) 
34-	La Villa Strangiato - Rush (Alex Lifeson) 
35-	Killer Queen - Queen (Brian May) 
36-	Addicted To That Rush - Mr Big (Paul Gilbert) 
37-	Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page) 
38-	Brighton Rock - Queen (Brian May) 
39-	Get The Funk Out - Extreme (Nuno Bettencourt) 
40-	Nothing Else Matters - Metallica (James Hetfield) 
41-	Inca Roads - Frank Zappa 
42-	You Do Something To Me - Paul Weller 
43-	Crazy Train - Ozzy Osborne (Randy Rhoads) 
44-	Marquee Moon - Television (Tom Verlaine) 
45-	Tunnel Of Love - Dire Straits (Mark Knopfler) 
46-	Live Forever - Oasis (Noel Gallagher) 
47-	Telegraph Road - Dire Straits (Mark Knopfler) 
48-	Out In The Fields - Gary Moore 
49-	The Final Countdown - Europe (John Norum) 
50-	Little Wing - Stevie Ray Vaughan 
51-	Bad Love - Eric Clapton 
52-	The Riverboat Song - Ocean Colour Scene (Steve Cradock) 
53-	Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (Kurt Cobain) 
54-	Cause We've Ended As Lovers - Jeff Beck 
55-	Beat It - Michael Jackson (Edward Van Halen) 
56-	Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi (Ritchie Sambora) 
57-	Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd (David Gilmour) 
58-	And Your Bird Can Sing - The Beatles (George Harrison) 
59-	Green Tinted Sixties Mind - Mr Big (Paul Gilbert) 
60-	These Are The Days Of Our Lives - Queen (Brian May) 
61-	Yo Mama - Frank Zappa 
62-	Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh 
63-	Paranoid Android - Radiohead (Johnny Greenwood) 
64-	Something - The Beatles (George Harrison) 
65-	Dry County - Bon Jovi (Ritchie Sambora) 
66-	Surfing With The Alien - Joe Satriani 
67-	Mr Crowley - Ozzy Osborne (Randy Rhoads) 
68-	Jump - Van Halen (Edward Van Halen) 
69-	Love In An Elevator - Aerosmith (Joe Perry) 
70-	Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano 
71-	Alive - Pearl Jam (Mark McCready) 
72-	The Loner - Gary Moore 
73-	Kid Charlemagne - Steely Dan (Larry Carlton) 
74-	Summer Song - Joe Satriani 
75-	Big Trouble - David Lee Roth (Steve Vai) 
76-	Resurrection - Brian May 
77-	While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles (Eric Clapton [and George Harrison]) 
78-	I Want It All - Queen (Brian May) 
79-	Stargazer - Rainbow (Ritchie Blackmore) 
80-	Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream (Eric Clapton) 
81-	Rough Boy - ZZ Top (Billy Gibbons) 
82-	Road To Hell, part 2 - Chris Rea 
83-	Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield 
84-	Paranoid - Black Sabbath (Tony Iommi) 
85-	Foxy Lady - Jimi Hendrix 
86-	The Forgotten: part 1 - Joe Satriani 
87-	Lazy - Deep Purple (Ritchie Blackmore) 
88-	The Supernatural - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (Peter Green) 
89-	Bold As Love - Jimi Hendrix 
90-	Mother Knows Best - Richard Thompson 
91-	Cry For The Nations - The Michael Schenker Group 
92-	He Man Woman Hater - Extreme (Nuno Bettencourt) 
93-	Samba Pa Ti - Santana (Carlos Santana) 
94-	No-one Said It Would Be Easy - Sheryl Crow (David Baerwald) 
95-	Echoes - Pink Floyd (David Gilmour) 
96-	She's Not There - Santana (Carlos Santana) 
97-	I Am The Resurrection - Stone Roses (John Squire) 
98-	Song 2 - Blur (Graham Coxon) 
99-	You Love Us - Manic Street Preachers (James Dean Bradfield) 
100-	A Kinder Eye - Allan Holdsworth