Some songs just aren't complete without a guitar solo. And these guitar solos are some of the most iconic of all time. “Crazy Train” is one of Ozzy Osbourne’s greatest songs, an enduring part of his ...

There's a specific kind of silence that falls in a room when a guitar solo lands exactly right. Conversations stop, heads turn, and for a few seconds the whole world seems to shrink down to a single ...

There aren’t enough guitar solos anymore. I mean, there are guitar solos still happening—in the metalspheres of the world, most explicitly—but rock and roll’s got a serious solo deficiency going on.

Mr. Ayers is an author, the president of Beggars Group US and a musician. His memoir “My Life in the Sunshine” will be published in June. When I recently saw the singer-songwriter Adrianne Lenker of ...