# The Best Deep Purple Guitar Solos

> The 18 best Deep Purple guitar solos, ranked. #1 is Highway Star (1972), then Child in Time and Lazy. Every video starts at the solo.

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Deep Purple helped invent hard rock and heavy metal, and Ritchie Blackmore's classically trained, Bach-inspired lead playing set a template for virtuoso rock guitar. Later guitarists Tommy Bolin and Steve Morse carried that tradition on in their own ways.

Informed by: [Wikipedia – Deep Purple discography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Purple_discography)

1. [Highway Star](https://greatestsolos.com/song/deep-purple-highway-star/) — Deep Purple · solo by Ritchie Blackmore · 1972
2. [Child in Time](https://greatestsolos.com/song/deep-purple-child-in-time/) — Deep Purple · solo by Ritchie Blackmore · 1970
3. [Lazy](https://greatestsolos.com/song/deep-purple-lazy/) — Deep Purple · solo by Ritchie Blackmore · 1972
4. [Burn](https://greatestsolos.com/song/deep-purple-burn/) — Deep Purple · solo by Ritchie Blackmore · 1974
5. [Smoke on the Water](https://greatestsolos.com/song/deep-purple-smoke-on-the-water/) — Deep Purple · solo by Ritchie Blackmore · 1972
6. [Mistreated](https://greatestsolos.com/song/deep-purple-mistreated/) — Deep Purple · solo by Ritchie Blackmore · 1974
7. [Speed King](https://greatestsolos.com/song/deep-purple-speed-king/) — Deep Purple · solo by Ritchie Blackmore · 1970
8. [Hard Lovin' Man](https://greatestsolos.com/song/deep-purple-hard-lovin-man/) — Deep Purple · solo by Ritchie Blackmore · 1970
9. [Space Truckin'](https://greatestsolos.com/song/deep-purple-space-truckin/) — Deep Purple · solo by Ritchie Blackmore · 1972
10. [Black Night](https://greatestsolos.com/song/deep-purple-black-night/) — Deep Purple · solo by Ritchie Blackmore · 1970
11. [Pictures of Home](https://greatestsolos.com/song/deep-purple-pictures-of-home/) — Deep Purple · solo by Ritchie Blackmore · 1972
12. [Wring That Neck](https://greatestsolos.com/song/deep-purple-wring-that-neck/) — Deep Purple · solo by Ritchie Blackmore · 1968
13. [Fireball](https://greatestsolos.com/song/deep-purple-fireball/) — Deep Purple · solo by Ritchie Blackmore · 1971
14. [Stormbringer](https://greatestsolos.com/song/deep-purple-stormbringer/) — Deep Purple · solo by Ritchie Blackmore · 1974
15. [Perfect Strangers](https://greatestsolos.com/song/deep-purple-perfect-strangers/) — Deep Purple · solo by Ritchie Blackmore · 1984
16. [Knocking at Your Back Door](https://greatestsolos.com/song/deep-purple-knocking-at-your-back-door/) — Deep Purple · solo by Ritchie Blackmore · 1984
17. [You Keep On Moving](https://greatestsolos.com/song/deep-purple-you-keep-on-moving/) — Deep Purple · solo by Tommy Bolin · 1975
18. [Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming](https://greatestsolos.com/song/deep-purple-sometimes-i-feel-like-screaming/) — Deep Purple · solo by Steve Morse · 1996

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