# Renegade guitar solo > Tommy Shaw & James Young's guitar solo on Renegade by Styx (1978) starts at about 2:35. From the album Pieces of Eight. A hard rock classic from the 1970s. Canonical URL: Styx, 1978, from *Pieces of Eight*. Solo by *Tommy Shaw & James Young*. A fiery, driving break that erupts after the a cappella intro and powers one of classic rock's great anthems. Renegade by Styx is ranked #526 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Tommy Shaw & James Young and the song was released in 1978. ## In our lists - [The Best Styx Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/styx-guitar-solos/) — #1 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1978](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1978/) — #16 ## Sources - [Musician Tuts: The 51 Best Guitar Solos Of All Time](https://musiciantuts.com/best-guitar-solos/) ### Who played the guitar solo on Renegade? Tommy Shaw & James Young played the solo on Styx's Renegade (1978). ### Where does Renegade rank among the greatest guitar solos? #526 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/)