Rolling Stone published its list of “100 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time” on May 4. Starting with AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long” at No. 100, the list had some relative newcomers (Geese’s “Getting Killed” from 2025 at No. 98), classic guitar slingers (Les Paul and Mary Ford’s “How High The Moon”), and expected appearances from guitar gods like Steve Vai, Frank Zappa, Joe Satriani, Bonnie Raitt, B.B. King, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
According to Rolling Stone, Prince and The Revolution birthed the song on Aug. 3, 1983, at Minneapolis’ First Avenue. "Prince wrung a solo from his guitar that felt more like a moving cry of the soul than a musical spotlight,” writes Kory Grow. “It’s the first time they played it live, and it’s the version on Purple Rain. Prince’s guitar prowess was well documented by that point, but the fluidity of his phrasing on the song and the way he pinched his strings for notes that ascended heavenward spoke more about what ‘Purple Rain’ meant than his obtuse lyrics.”
“Purple Rain” continues to hold a presence in the music world, even ten years after Prince’s untimely passing. Most recently, it was used in a climactic moment in the final season of Stranger Things.
Prince performs at halftime during Super Bowl XLI, considered the best Super Bowl Halftime show of all time.Photo by Theo Wargo on Getty Images
Eddie Hazel’s work on Funkadelic’s “Maggot Brain” comes in at No. 9, with Rolling Stone’s describing the funk legend as conjuring “a sense of perseverance, rising phoenix-like from the ashes of his echo pedals in the final minutes.”
The rest of the Top 5 are: Eddie Van Halen’s legendary tapping on Van Halen’s “Eruption”; David Gilmour’s “transcendent” solo on Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb”; Joe Walsh and Don Felder’s dueling guitars on the Eagles’ “Hotel California”; and Jimi Hendrix’s “Machine Gun,” from the 1970 live album, Band of Gypsys.
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