# Mona guitar solo > The guitar solo on Mona by Bo Diddley (1957) starts at about 1:10. From the album Bo Diddley. Played on a Gretsch rectangular. Canonical URL: Bo Diddley, 1957, from *Bo Diddley*. Solo by *Bo Diddley*. Pure tremolo-drenched rhythm guitar pulsing over the tom-toms, a hypnotic sound the Rolling Stones copied almost wholesale. Mona by Bo Diddley is #3 in our ranking of the best Bo Diddley guitar solos. The solo is played by Bo Diddley and the song was released in 1957. ## In our lists - [The Best Bo Diddley Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/bo-diddley-guitar-solos/) — #3 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1957](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1957/) — #13 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Mona? Bo Diddley played the solo on Bo Diddley's Mona (1957). ### What guitar was used on the Mona solo? A gretsch rectangular, according to widely reported accounts. --- 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/)