Studio tracks on which Neil plays guitar
Neil has played guitar live in concert on such songs as "Suburbia," "Rent," "Se A Vida É," and "Was It Worth It?" But there's only a handful of cases in which it's a documented fact—or at least, from the evidence, a very strong likelihood—that he's playing guitar on studio tracks. That doesn't mean that these are the only tracks on which he plays guitar (usually acoustic, but sometimes electric). Nor does it necessarily mean that there's not another guitarist on some of these tracks as well, such as a few on which both Neil and Johnny Marr play guitar. (Note: Guitar samples played on a keyboard don't count.)
- Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
- I Want a Lover (on which he plays both guitar and bass guitar)
- Why Don't We Live Together?
- Domino Dancing
- It Must Be Obvious
- How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?
- Nervously
- The End of the World
- The Truck-Driver and His Mate
- Hit and Miss
- Silver Age
- You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk
- Boy Strange
- Out of My System
- Home and Dry
- Sexy Northerner
- Nightlife
- I Get Along
- Birthday Boy
- London
- Here
- The Night I Fell in Love
- Luna Park
- Gin and Jag
- Beautiful People (demo)
Neil plays guitar on the demo version of this song, which was released as a bonus track with the 2017 reissue of Yes. But his guitar apparently isn't used in the album version. - A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi
- One Night
- I Didn't Get Where I Am Today
- Run, Girl, Run (PSB demo and the "1971 single version" sung by Frances Barber)
- Bullet for Narcissus
It's very likely that Neil plays guitar on a number of other released studio recordings as well. But these are the only ones for which I so far have either definite or at least very strong confirmation of Neil's guitar work.
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