# Save Me guitar solo > Brian May's guitar solo on Save Me by Queen (1980) starts at about 2:11. From the album The Game. Played on a Red Special through a Vox AC30 amp. Canonical URL: Queen, 1980, from *The Game*. Solo by *Brian May*. A May ballad with a soaring, emotional solo that sits right at the heart of the song. Save Me by Queen is #9 in our ranking of the best Queen guitar solos. The solo is played by Brian May and the song was released in 1980. ## In our lists - [The Best Queen Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/queen-guitar-solos/) — #9 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Save Me? Brian May played the solo on Queen's Save Me (1980). ### What guitar was used on the Save Me solo? A red special through a Vox AC30 amp, 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/)