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Steve Hackett: Defector (Charisma)

Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, July 1980

THIS IS THE album we knew Hackett was capable of making: powerful heavy and relevant. It's the first of his four solo efforts to succeed in the way that his work with has done in the past, and which that band's remaining threesome have singularly failed to do.

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