'Greatest guitar riff of all time'

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I won't argue with the results of a poll of students at the London Tech Music School, where members of bands like Radiohead, the Kinks, and the Cure learned to play.

FunFact: 16 of the top 25 were written in the U.S. and seven in the U.K.

FunFact #2: The majority were recorded in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, only 7 after 1989. The complete results follow.

Top 25 Guitar Riffs of All Time

1 Smoke On The Water — Deep Purple (1973)

2 Smells Like Teen Spirit — Nirvana (1991)

3 Walk This Way — Aerosmith (1975)

4 Purple Haze — Jimi Hendrix (1967)

5 Sweet Child O Mine — Guns N Roses (1987)

6 Paradise City — Guns N Roses (1987)

7 Ace Of Spades — Motorhead (1980)

8 Enter Sandman — Metallica (1991)

9 Under The Bridge — Red Hot Chilli Peppers (1992)

10 Welcome To The Jungle — Guns N Roses (1987)

11 Run To The Hills — Iron Maiden (1982)

12 Walk — Pantera (1992)

13 Johnny B Goode — Chuck Berry (1958)

14 Back In Black — AC/DC (1980)

15 Immigrant Song — Led Zeppelin (1970)

16 Wake Up — Rage Against The Machine (1992)

17 Highway to Hell — AC/DC (1979)

18 My Generation — The Who (1965)

19 7 Nation Army — The White Stripes (2003)

20 Born To Be Wild — Steppenwolf (1968)

21 Give It Away — Red Hot Chilli Peppers (1991)

22 Paranoid — Black Sabbath (1970)

23 Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) — Jimi Hendrix (1967)

24 Eye Of The Tiger — Survivor (1982)

25 Money For Nothing — Dire Straits (1984)