# The Best Shadows Guitar Solos

> The 18 best Shadows guitar solos, ranked. #1 is Apache (1960), then Wonderful Land and FBI. Every video starts at the solo.

Canonical URL: <https://greatestsolos.com/list/the-shadows-guitar-solos/>

The Shadows made the electric guitar the star of British pop before the Beatles, with Hank Marvin's echo-laden Stratocaster melodies inspiring a generation of players. Their clean, singing tone and whammy-bar vibrato remain among the most imitated sounds in guitar history.

Informed by: [Wikipedia: The Shadows discography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadows_discography), [Wikipedia: Hank Marvin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Marvin)

1. [Apache](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-shadows-apache/) — The Shadows · solo by Hank Marvin · 1960
2. [Wonderful Land](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-shadows-wonderful-land/) — The Shadows · solo by Hank Marvin · 1962
3. [FBI](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-shadows-fbi/) — The Shadows · solo by Hank Marvin · 1961
4. [Man of Mystery](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-shadows-man-of-mystery/) — The Shadows · solo by Hank Marvin · 1960
5. [Kon-Tiki](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-shadows-kon-tiki/) — The Shadows · solo by Hank Marvin · 1961
6. [Foot Tapper](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-shadows-foot-tapper/) — The Shadows · solo by Hank Marvin · 1963
7. [Atlantis](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-shadows-atlantis/) — The Shadows · solo by Hank Marvin · 1963
8. [Dance On!](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-shadows-dance-on/) — The Shadows · solo by Hank Marvin · 1962
9. [The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-shadows-the-rise-and-fall-of-flingel-bunt/) — The Shadows · solo by Hank Marvin · 1964
10. [The Frightened City](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-shadows-the-frightened-city/) — The Shadows · solo by Hank Marvin · 1961
11. [Guitar Tango](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-shadows-guitar-tango/) — The Shadows · solo by Hank Marvin · 1962
12. [Shindig](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-shadows-shindig/) — The Shadows · solo by Hank Marvin · 1963
13. [Nivram](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-shadows-nivram/) — The Shadows · solo by Hank Marvin · 1961
14. [The Savage](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-shadows-the-savage/) — The Shadows · solo by Hank Marvin · 1961
15. [Genie with the Light Brown Lamp](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-shadows-genie-with-the-light-brown-lamp/) — The Shadows · solo by Hank Marvin · 1964
16. [Don't Cry for Me Argentina](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-shadows-don-t-cry-for-me-argentina/) — The Shadows · solo by Hank Marvin · 1978
17. [Theme from The Deer Hunter (Cavatina)](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-shadows-theme-from-the-deer-hunter-cavatina/) — The Shadows · solo by Hank Marvin · 1979
18. [Riders in the Sky](https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-shadows-riders-in-the-sky/) — The Shadows · solo by Hank Marvin · 1979

---

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/)