# Sweet Jane guitar solo > Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner's guitar solo on Sweet Jane by Lou Reed (1974) starts at about 0:05. From the album Rock 'n' Roll Animal. Canonical URL: Lou Reed, 1974, from *Rock 'n' Roll Animal*. Solo by *Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner*. On this live album the famous extended twin-guitar intro is played by Reed's sidemen Hunter and Wagner, and it turned the song into an arena-rock showcase. Sweet Jane by Lou Reed is ranked #291 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner and the song was released in 1974. It appears on 1 lists, placing as high as #25 (Gibson.com (via Georgia Straight)). ## In our lists - [The Best Lou Reed Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/lou-reed-guitar-solos/) — #14 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1974](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1974/) — #11 - [Who Really Played That Solo? Solos Not Played by the Guitarist You'd Expect](https://greatestsolos.com/list/who-really-played-that-solo/) — #7 ## Sources - [Gibson.com (via Georgia Straight): Gibson.com's Top 50 Guitar Solos of All Time](https://www.straight.com/blogra/gibsoncom-picks-top-50-guitar-solos-all-time) — #25 ### Who played the guitar solo on Sweet Jane? Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner played the solo on Lou Reed's Sweet Jane (1974). ### Where does Sweet Jane rank among the greatest guitar solos? #291 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/)