# Three Steps to Heaven guitar solo > The guitar solo on Three Steps to Heaven by Eddie Cochran (1960) starts at about 1:12. From the album Non-album single. Played on a Gretsch 6120. Canonical URL: Eddie Cochran, 1960, from *Non-album single*. Solo by *Eddie Cochran*. A gentle, chiming guitar part carries this posthumous UK number one, proof he could play for the song as well as show off. Three Steps to Heaven by Eddie Cochran is #12 in our ranking of the best Eddie Cochran guitar solos. The solo is played by Eddie Cochran and the song was released in 1960. ## In our lists - [The Best Eddie Cochran Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/eddie-cochran-guitar-solos/) — #12 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Three Steps to Heaven? Eddie Cochran played the solo on Eddie Cochran's Three Steps to Heaven (1960). ### What guitar was used on the Three Steps to Heaven solo? A gretsch 6120, 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/)