# The Greatest Australian Rock Guitar Solos > The Greatest Australian Rock Guitar Solos: #1 is Let There Be Rock by AC/DC, then Back in Black and Whole Lotta Rosie. Every video starts at the solo. Canonical URL: Australian rock guitar is louder than its reputation, and more varied. AC/DC's Angus Young (born in Glasgow, raised in Sydney after his family emigrated) set the template. Airbourne and Wolfmother carried it on. Tame Impala and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard took it into psychedelia, and Tommy Emmanuel, Plini, Orianthi and Tash Sultana each built a different kind of virtuosity. This list includes only Australian acts, and every video starts at the solo. 1. [Let There Be Rock](https://greatestsolos.com/song/ac-dc-let-there-be-rock/) — AC/DC · solo by Angus Young · 1977 2. [Back in Black](https://greatestsolos.com/song/ac-dc-back-in-black/) — AC/DC · solo by Angus Young · 1980 3. [Whole Lotta Rosie](https://greatestsolos.com/song/ac-dc-whole-lotta-rosie/) — AC/DC · solo by Angus Young · 1977 4. [You Shook Me All Night Long](https://greatestsolos.com/song/ac-dc-you-shook-me-all-night-long/) — AC/DC · solo by Angus Young · 1980 5. [Thunderstruck](https://greatestsolos.com/song/ac-dc-thunderstruck/) — AC/DC · solo by Angus Young · 1990 6. [Joker and the Thief](https://greatestsolos.com/song/wolfmother-joker-and-the-thief/) — Wolfmother · solo by Andrew Stockdale · 2005 7. [Highway to Hell](https://greatestsolos.com/song/ac-dc-highway-to-hell/) — AC/DC · solo by Angus Young · 1979 8. [Riff Raff](https://greatestsolos.com/song/ac-dc-riff-raff/) — AC/DC · solo by Angus Young · 1978 9. [Classical Gas](https://greatestsolos.com/song/tommy-emmanuel-classical-gas/) — Tommy Emmanuel · solo by Tommy Emmanuel · 1995 10. [Runnin' Wild](https://greatestsolos.com/song/airbourne-runnin-wild/) — Airbourne · solo by Joel O'Keeffe · 2007 11. [Woman](https://greatestsolos.com/song/wolfmother-woman/) — Wolfmother · solo by Andrew Stockdale · 2005 12. [Elephant](https://greatestsolos.com/song/tame-impala-elephant/) — Tame Impala · solo by Kevin Parker · 2012 13. [Rattlesnake](https://greatestsolos.com/song/king-gizzard-and-the-lizard-wizard-rattlesnake/) — King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard · solo by Stu Mackenzie · 2017 14. [Gila Monster](https://greatestsolos.com/song/king-gizzard-and-the-lizard-wizard-gila-monster/) — King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard · solo by Joey Walker · 2023 15. [Highly Strung](https://greatestsolos.com/song/orianthi-highly-strung/) — Orianthi · solo by Orianthi · 2009 16. [Electric Sunrise](https://greatestsolos.com/song/plini-electric-sunrise/) — Plini · solo by Plini · 2016 17. [Jungle](https://greatestsolos.com/song/tash-sultana-jungle/) — Tash Sultana · solo by Tash Sultana · 2016 18. [Angelina](https://greatestsolos.com/song/tommy-emmanuel-angelina/) — Tommy Emmanuel · solo by Tommy Emmanuel · 2000 ## Quick answers ### What is the greatest Australian guitar solo? Going by the site's combined ranking of published lists, it's AC/DC's 'Let There Be Rock', just ahead of 'Back in Black'. Wolfmother's 'Joker and the Thief' is the highest-ranked Australian solo recorded after the 1990s. ### Is Angus Young Australian? He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and his family moved to Sydney when he was a child. AC/DC formed in Sydney, which is why the band is on this list. ### Who are the best modern Australian guitarists? This list includes Kevin Parker (Tame Impala), Stu Mackenzie and Joey Walker (King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard), Plini, Orianthi, Tash Sultana and Joel O'Keeffe of Airbourne, plus fingerstyle player Tommy Emmanuel. --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)