# Never Surrender guitar solo > Rik Emmett's guitar solo on Never Surrender by Triumph (1983) starts at about 3:31. From the album Never Surrender. A hard rock classic from the 1980s. Canonical URL: Triumph, 1983, from *Never Surrender*. Solo by *Rik Emmett*. A dramatic, multi-section solo drives this defiant title track. Never Surrender by Triumph is #7 in our ranking of the best Triumph guitar solos. The solo is played by Rik Emmett and the song was released in 1983. ## In our lists - [The Best Triumph Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/triumph-guitar-solos/) — #7 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Never Surrender? Rik Emmett played the solo on Triumph's Never Surrender (1983). --- 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/)