# Beautiful Day guitar solo > The Edge's guitar solo on Beautiful Day by U2 (2000) starts at about 2:55. From the album All That You Can't Leave Behind. A rock classic from the 2000s. Canonical URL: U2, 2000, from *All That You Can't Leave Behind*. Solo by *The Edge*. Edge's ringing, Bo Diddley-tinged bridge guitar is among his most uplifting moments. The chorus explodes with chiming overdrive. Beautiful Day by U2 is #15 in our ranking of the best The Edge guitar solos. The solo is played by The Edge and the song was released in 2000. ## In our lists - [The Best The Edge Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/the-edge-guitar-solos/) — #15 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Beautiful Day? The Edge played the solo on U2's Beautiful Day (2000). --- 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/)