Jimmy Page's Solo on 'One Hit (To the Body)' from Dirty Work

The track is “One Hit (To the Body)” — the opening song on the Stones’ 1986 album Dirty Work. Jimmy Page contributed a blistering, uncredited guitar solo that cuts through the mix like a razor. The song’s subject is a brutal, almost boxing-like metaphor for a relationship gone sour: “One hit to the body / One hit to the head / One hit and your last girl’s dead.” It’s less about literal violence and more about the final, decisive blow in a romantic war.

Page wasn’t a full collaborator on the album; he happened to be around during sessions and Keith Richards invited him to lay down a solo. The result is one of the few times two legendary riff-makers shared a track without one overpowering the other. The song itself was co-written by Jagger and Richards, though their relationship was fraying at the time — making the “one hit” subject feel almost like a meta-commentary on the band’s internal tensions.