# Shooting Star guitar solo > Mick Ralphs's guitar solo on Shooting Star by Bad Company (1975) starts at about 3:15. From the album Straight Shooter. A classic rock classic from the 1970s. Canonical URL: Bad Company, 1975, from *Straight Shooter*. Solo by *Mick Ralphs*. This is one of Ralphs's most singable solos, lyrical and unhurried. It builds the song's rise and fall into a bittersweet climax. Shooting Star by Bad Company is #3 in our ranking of the best Bad Company guitar solos. The solo is played by Mick Ralphs and the song was released in 1975. ## In our lists - [The Best Bad Company Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/bad-company-guitar-solos/) — #3 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Shooting Star? Mick Ralphs played the solo on Bad Company's Shooting Star (1975). --- 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/)