The Best Guitar Solos Of All Time: Number 5
You knew this song would be on the list, right? Coming in at number 5 on the best guitar solos of all time is Queen's masterpiece, "Bohemian Rhapsody." Without Brian May's growing and soaring guitar work on "Rhapsody," the track just would not be the same. The song is on the 1975 album A Night At The Opera.
Back in 1983, Brian May did a video tutorial on his famous solo:
The problem, of course, is that most experienced guitar players may well be able to play the correct notes, but they cannot replicate the tone or feel that May produces. After all, there is only one Brian May of Queen.
Guitar World magazine readers recently rated May's work on "Bohemian Rhapsody" as the best guitar solo of all time. May was humbled - but when asked about the solo by a journalist, he said he believes his best solo is in "Killer Queen." To be sure, that is an amazing and complicated riff, too!