This has to be up there with the great rock instrumentals of all time. A radio hit that went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 has long been a classic rock staple.

When “Theme From a Summer Place” became the best selling record of 1961, it was touted as also being the best-selling instrumental of all time.

A brief history of the best instrumental songs, and what made them memorable. Skip to content New Music. All; ... Eddie Hazel delivers one of the most emotionally devastating guitar solos of all time.

But their best instrumental slots in the latter. ... DJ Premier is arguably the best hip-hop producer of all time, and this may he his finest beat, and the one that represents him the best.

Hideaway saw Clapton, who was only just out of his teens, on amazing form. He took the Freddie King instrumental and nailed it, making it his own. There's hardly a guitarist anywhere that couldn't ...