# Lights Out guitar solo > Michael Schenker's guitar solo on Lights Out by UFO (1977) starts at about 1:52. From the album Lights Out. Ranked #196 of all time across 80 lists. Canonical URL: UFO, 1977, from *Lights Out*. Solo by *Michael Schenker*. A punchy hard-rock tune with a sharp, fast, well-structured solo. Lights Out by UFO is ranked #196 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Michael Schenker and the song was released in 1977. It appears on 3 lists, placing as high as #69 (Planet Rock). ## In our lists - [The Best UFO Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/ufo-guitar-solos/) — #4 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1977](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1977/) — #10 ## Sources - [Planet Rock: The 75 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time](https://www.hellorayo.co.uk/planet-rock/news/rock-news/the-greatest-guitar-solos-of-all-time) — #69 - [Bombay Lives (Substack): 100 Greatest Guitar Solos](https://bombaylives.substack.com/p/100-greatest-guitar-solos) — #84 - [Topito (now 10h26.com): Top 100 des plus grands solos de guitare de l'histoire (Benoit Floyd)](https://www.10h26.com/top-100-des-plus-grands-solos-de-guitare) — #84 - [DigitalDreamDoor: 200 Greatest Metal Guitar Solos](https://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_metal-guitar-solos.html) — #121 ### Who played the guitar solo on Lights Out? Michael Schenker played the solo on UFO's Lights Out (1977). ### What guitar was used on the Lights Out solo? A gibson flying v through a Marshall amp, according to widely reported accounts. ### Where does Lights Out rank among the greatest guitar solos? #196 in the GreatestSolos consensus of 80 published lists; it appears on 3 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/)