# Great White Hope guitar solo > Tommy Shaw's guitar solo on Great White Hope by Styx (1978) starts at about 2:28. From the album Pieces of Eight. A classic rock classic from the 1970s. Canonical URL: Styx, 1978, from *Pieces of Eight*. Solo by *Tommy Shaw*. A bold, hard-driving track with energetic lead guitar. Great White Hope by Styx is #14 in our ranking of the best Styx guitar solos. The solo is played by Tommy Shaw and the song was released in 1978. ## In our lists - [The Best Styx Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/styx-guitar-solos/) — #14 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Great White Hope? Tommy Shaw played the solo on Styx's Great White Hope (1978). --- 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/)