# Pictures of a City guitar solo > Robert Fripp's guitar solo on Pictures of a City by King Crimson (1970) starts at about 2:25. From the album In the Wake of Poseidon. Canonical URL: King Crimson, 1970, from *In the Wake of Poseidon*. Solo by *Robert Fripp*. A darker sibling to Schizoid Man, packed with fast-picked unison lines and a jazz-inflected guitar break. Pictures of a City by King Crimson is #9 in our ranking of the best King Crimson guitar solos. The solo is played by Robert Fripp and the song was released in 1970. ## In our lists - [The Best King Crimson Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/king-crimson-guitar-solos/) — #9 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Pictures of a City? Robert Fripp played the solo on King Crimson's Pictures of a City (1970). ### What guitar was used on the Pictures of a City solo? A gibson les paul custom, 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/)