10 Greatest Guitar Solos Of The '70s

Anyone who was considered a music enthusiast in the '70s had to own a copy of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. Written while the band was going through an intense period of dysfunction, the entire album feels like a soap opera that just so happens to have one of the greatest soundtracks of all time. Every other song on this album is a banger, but "Go Your Own Way" is when we first got to see the grandeur of Lindsey Buckingham's guitar.

This is one of the greatest solo breaks of all time, but it tricks into thinking that it's actually bad. There's hardly anything going on, with just a few squeals coming and going before launching into the next chorus, but that's just scratching the surface of the song's intensity. The basic song was written as a jab at fellow bandmate Stevie Nicks, but the pure emotion brought about in these few notes sounds like every bit of pain the band was feeling being captured in one single musical expression.

By the time the solo's over, the whole album seems to turn a corner from a fun pop romp to a pure musical exorcism of raw emotion. There were a lot more strenuous guitar solos in the rock landscape, but Lindsey Buckingham ended up making one of the most poignant musical statements out of just a handful of notes.