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A really nice toe tapper, tho i like that 1920’s/30’s style music; there is a sense of calm and simple, clean, wholesome enjoyment about the song. Tho I don’t like the old record effect on “now she’ hit the big time”; jars the record for me.

In regards to the solo i’ve always associated it to John, even George said so

John played a brilliant solo on Honey Pie – sounded like Django Reinhardt or something. It was one of them where you just close your eyes and happen to hit all the right notes… sounded like a little jazz solo.

however wiki writes 

However, Barry Miles in his: “The Beatles, a diary: an intimate day by day history” [Omnibus Press 1998] says: “Paul added the lead vocal and guitar to ‘Honey Pie ‘.” [p.275, entry for October 2]. The guitar playing is very reminiscent of McCartney’s guitar playing (as is evidenced by his two later solo albums). Moreover, McCartney’s father was also known to be a jazz bandleader before McCartney was born (many members of Harrison’s own entourage have said that his autobiography had many errors)

And in ‘Recording Sessions’ Lewisohn has Paul overdubbing lead vocals and lead guitar on the 2nd October after John played electric guitar on the 1st.

But if that wasn’t enough John C. Winn in ‘That Magic Feeling’ gives it back to John, even quoting George

In the meantime, overdubs continued on the second, with Paul’s main vocal and a guitar solo from John (later described by George as “like Django Reinhardt or something. It was one of them where you just close your eyes and happen to hit all the right notes …”).

So what’s going on? Who played the guitar solo?

@Joe, you went with John. What are your thoughts on it being Paul?