BY MIKE METTLER – FEBRUARY 3, 2018
To celebrate the beginning of his North American tour, which commences today, February 3, 2018, with his appearance on Cruise To The Edge, Steve Hackett has rerecorded GTR’s 1986 U.S. hit single “When the Heart Rules the Mind,” which reached No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100. You can listen to the new track here: https://youtu.be/toZKMevmz90.
Observes Hackett, “I always loved the track ‘When the Heart Rules the Mind.’ I think it is the strongest thing Steve Howe and I wrote together, and I always wanted to do a version where I would sing it myself with the use of today’s production techniques. I’m also very pleased to have my friend Steve Rothery [of Marillion] onboard doing additional guitar. I’m looking forward to taking my band on tour. It’ll be great to play both North and South America again celebrating Genesis, solo, and GTR!”
“When the Heart Rules the Mind” is now available on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Amazon, and all other digital services.
On January 26, Hackett released Wuthering Nights: Live in Birmingham, a new live packages filmed at the Birmingham Symphony Hall during Hackett’s recent, critically acclaimed Genesis Revisited & Classic Hackett tour. Wuthering Nights is available as Special Edition 2CD + 2DVD Digipak, Blu-ray, and digital album. All video formats include 5.1 surround sound and various extras. Get your copy here: https://stevehackett.lnk.to/WutheringNights.
You can also watch the band perform the instrumental “El Niño” here: https://youtu.be/qYCfgBH8zz0.
This tour marked the 40th anniversary of the 1977-released Genesis album Wind & Wuthering, Hackett’s last album with the band, which reached No. 7 in the UK album chart. To celebrate, Steve and his band played five of the best-loved tracks from this iconic album: “Eleventh Earl of Mar,” “One for the Vine,” “Blood on the Rooftops,” “…In That Quiet Earth,” and “Afterglow.”
Hackett and his ever-trusty Les Paul.
Other fan favorites from Hackett’s Genesis days were “revisited” on this tour, including “Dance on a Volcano,” “Inside & Out,” “Firth of Fifth,” “The Musical Box,” and the ever-classic “Los Endos.” This show also marked the first ever live performance by Hackett and his band of “One for the Vine” and “Inside & Out,” and also includes many of Hackett’s solo favorites as well as material from his latest studio album, 2017’s The Night Siren.
A full list of Hackett’s upcoming tour dates can be found here, including five special UK shows set to take place in October 2018 alongside a 41-piece orchestra.
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