# Gates of Babylon guitar solo > Ritchie Blackmore's guitar solo on Gates of Babylon by Rainbow (1978) starts at about 3:40. From the album Long Live Rock 'n' Roll. Canonical URL: Rainbow, 1978, from *Long Live Rock 'n' Roll*. Solo by *Ritchie Blackmore*. Blackmore's harmonic-minor solo, framed by strings, fuses Bach-style lines with exotic scales in one of his most admired recorded leads. Gates of Babylon by Rainbow is ranked #391 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Ritchie Blackmore and the song was released in 1978. It appears on 1 lists, placing as high as #41 (DigitalDreamDoor). ## In our lists - [The Best Ritchie Blackmore Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/ritchie-blackmore-guitar-solos/) — #4 - [The Best Rainbow Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/rainbow-guitar-solos/) — #2 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1978](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1978/) — #10 ## Sources - [DigitalDreamDoor: 200 Greatest Metal Guitar Solos](https://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_metal-guitar-solos.html) — #41 - [Planet Rock: The 75 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time](https://www.hellorayo.co.uk/planet-rock/news/rock-news/the-greatest-guitar-solos-of-all-time) — #50 ### Who played the guitar solo on Gates of Babylon? Ritchie Blackmore played the solo on Rainbow's Gates of Babylon (1978). ### What guitar was used on the Gates of Babylon solo? A fender stratocaster through a Marshall amp, according to widely reported accounts. ### Where does Gates of Babylon rank among the greatest guitar solos? #391 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/)