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Steve Hackett ensures “The Lamb Lies Down” and “Stands Up” during Rialto nod to Genesis

Ever since Steve Hackett started regularly revisiting Genesis a little over a decade ago, the group’s classic period guitarist frequently performed large portions of [More…]

“The Lamb Lies Down” for Genesis, “Stands Up” half-century later for Rialto-ready Steve Hackett

Before Genesis even released “The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway,” arguably its most ambitious album ever, the future Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, then comprised of front [More…]

“Supper’s Ready”: Steve Hackett’s “The Circus And The Nightwhale,” Genesis’ “Foxtrot At Fifty”

Ever since voluntarily walking away from Genesis towards the tail end of the 1970s, Steve Hackett became one of the most prolific and progressive guitar gods, who after the [More…]

Steve Hackett revitalizes Genesis’ entire “Foxtrot” as Copernicus Center is a “Watcher Of The Skies”

As long as Genesis doesn’t pick up “The Last Domino” and Peter Gabriel keeps focusing on his “i/o” comeback, former guitarist Steve Hackett is the last man flying [More…]

Mind-blowing Steve Hackett samples solo “Surrender,” last Genesis supper “Seconds Out”

Now that “The Last Domino” dropped for Genesis, former guitarist Steve Hackett is the sole member revisiting the group’s classic period throughout the 1970s on the [More…]

Steve Hackett (Genesis): “Seconds Out + More” Tour at Copernicus Center

Click here for a review of Steve Hackett at the Copernicus Center. For additional information on Steve Hackett visit HackettSongs.com. Upcoming concert highlights at the [More…]

Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett leans acoustic and orchestral “Under A Mediterranean Sky”

Within a mere matter of months since releasing his autobiography, “A Genesis In My Bed,” and the concert collection, “Selling England By The Pound & Spectral [More…]

“Becoming Human”: Simon Collins, a labyrinth of sounds and a famous musical father

Throughout each of his electronically-focused solo albums, then one with progressive and alternative rock experimenters Sound Of Contact, Simon Collins keeps evolving with an [More…]

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Steve Hackett goes inside the pages of “A Genesis In My Bed”

Classic-era Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett isn’t just an integral shaper of the group’s experimental seasons throughout the 1970s (when Peter Gabriel sang in outrageous [More…]

Genesis’ entire “England,” “Spectral,” “Edge” slices comprise sumptuous Steve Hackett helping

There’s never been a period of Steve Hackett’s lengthy study of the guitar when he hasn’t been uncompromisingly prolific, but ever since he was inducted into the Rock [More…]