# Hey You guitar solo > David Gilmour's guitar solo on Hey You by Pink Floyd (1979) starts at about 1:45. Ranked #421 of all time across 80 lists. A rock classic from the 1970s. Canonical URL: Pink Floyd, 1979. Solo by *David Gilmour*. A heavy, mournful break at the heart of The Wall's second half. Hey You by Pink Floyd is ranked #421 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by David Gilmour and the song was released in 1979. It appears on 1 lists, placing as high as #49 (Ranker). ## In our lists - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1979](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1979/) — #10 - [The Saddest Guitar Solos Ever Recorded](https://greatestsolos.com/list/saddest-guitar-solos/) — #19 ## Sources - [Ranker: The Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time](https://www.ranker.com/list/greatest-guitar-solos/johnwarner) — #49 ### Who played the guitar solo on Hey You? David Gilmour played the solo on Pink Floyd's Hey You (1979). ### Where does Hey You rank among the greatest guitar solos? #421 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/)