# Love Removal Machine guitar solo > Billy Duffy's guitar solo on Love Removal Machine by The Cult (1987) starts at about 3:01. From the album Electric. Ranked #574 of all time across 80 lists. Canonical URL: The Cult, 1987, from *Electric*. Solo by *Billy Duffy*. A deliberately raw, gut-level solo recorded under Rick Rubin, prized by Duffy himself for soul and passion over polish. Love Removal Machine by The Cult is ranked #574 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Billy Duffy and the song was released in 1987. It appears on 1 lists, placing as high as #206 (Digital Dream Door). ## In our lists - [The Best The Cult Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/the-cult-guitar-solos/) — #2 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1987](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1987/) — #15 ## Sources - [Digital Dream Door: 250 Greatest Rock Guitar Solos](https://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_guitarsolo.html) — #206 ### Who played the guitar solo on Love Removal Machine? Billy Duffy played the solo on The Cult's Love Removal Machine (1987). ### What guitar was used on the Love Removal Machine solo? A gibson les paul through a Marshall amp, according to widely reported accounts. ### Where does Love Removal Machine rank among the greatest guitar solos? #574 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/)