# Tie Your Mother Down guitar solo > Brian May's guitar solo on Tie Your Mother Down by Queen (1976) starts at about 1:57. From the album A Day at the Races. A hard rock classic from the 1970s. Canonical URL: Queen, 1976, from *A Day at the Races*. Solo by *Brian May*. A slide-inflected, hard-rocking solo over one of May's best riffs. Tie Your Mother Down by Queen is #5 in our ranking of the best Brian May guitar solos. The solo is played by Brian May and the song was released in 1976. ## In our lists - [The Best Brian May Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/brian-may-guitar-solos/) — #5 - [The Best Queen Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/queen-guitar-solos/) — #7 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Tie Your Mother Down? Brian May played the solo on Queen's Tie Your Mother Down (1976). ### What guitar was used on the Tie Your Mother Down 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/)