# Spotlight Kid guitar solo > Ritchie Blackmore's guitar solo on Spotlight Kid by Rainbow (1981) starts at about 2:35. From the album Difficult to Cure. A hard rock classic from the 1980s. Canonical URL: Rainbow, 1981, from *Difficult to Cure*. Solo by *Ritchie Blackmore*. A fast, driving track where Blackmore and keyboardist Don Airey swap blazing neoclassical runs. Spotlight Kid by Rainbow is #15 in our ranking of the best Ritchie Blackmore guitar solos. The solo is played by Ritchie Blackmore and the song was released in 1981. ## In our lists - [The Best Ritchie Blackmore Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/ritchie-blackmore-guitar-solos/) — #15 - [The Best Rainbow Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/rainbow-guitar-solos/) — #9 ## Sources - [DigitalDreamDoor: 200 Greatest Metal Guitar Solos](https://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_metal-guitar-solos.html) — #118 ### Who played the guitar solo on Spotlight Kid? Ritchie Blackmore played the solo on Rainbow's Spotlight Kid (1981). ### What guitar was used on the Spotlight Kid solo? A fender stratocaster through a Marshall 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/)