# Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others guitar solo > Johnny Marr's guitar solo on Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others by The Smiths (1986) starts at about 2:05. From the album The Queen Is Dead. Canonical URL: The Smiths, 1986, from *The Queen Is Dead*. Solo by *Johnny Marr*. Shimmering, chorus-laden guitars fade in and out to create one of Marr's most beautiful textures. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others by The Smiths is ranked #275 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Johnny Marr and the song was released in 1986. It appears on 1 lists, placing as high as #17 (The Metal Circus (Spain), reproducing Q magazine). ## In our lists - [The Best The Smiths Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/the-smiths-guitar-solos/) — #16 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1986](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1986/) — #4 ## Sources - [The Metal Circus (Spain), reproducing Q magazine: Los 20 mejores solos de guitarra](https://www.themetalcircus.com/noticias/los-20-mejores-solos-de-guitarra/) — #17 ### Who played the guitar solo on Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others? Johnny Marr played the solo on The Smiths's Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (1986). ### Where does Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others rank among the greatest guitar solos? #275 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/)