# Looking for Satellites guitar solo > Reeves Gabrels's guitar solo on Looking for Satellites by David Bowie (1997) starts at about 2:45. From the album Earthling. Canonical URL: David Bowie, 1997, from *Earthling*. Solo by *Reeves Gabrels*. Gabrels plays a celebrated solo confined to a single string, turning a limitation into an eerie, climbing melody. Looking for Satellites by David Bowie is ranked #398 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Reeves Gabrels and the song was released in 1997. It appears on 1 lists, placing as high as #38 (guitarguitar). ## In our lists - [The Best David Bowie Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/david-bowie-guitar-solos/) — #15 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1997](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1997/) — #3 ## Sources - [guitarguitar: Top 50 Guitar Solos of All Time](https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/news/141664/) — #38 ### Who played the guitar solo on Looking for Satellites? Reeves Gabrels played the solo on David Bowie's Looking for Satellites (1997). ### Where does Looking for Satellites rank among the greatest guitar solos? #398 in the GreatestSolos consensus of 80 published lists; it appears on 1 of them. --- 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/)