Steve Hackett - Defector

Deluxe edition 2CD + DVD

Defector is Steve Hackett's highest charting album in the U.K. (No.9). Released in 1980, it featured the same band as Spectral Mornings.

The deluxe edition features a new remaster of the album along with a CD of Steve Hackett's set at the Reading Festival in 1980. There is also a DVD which features a pseudo 5.1 Surround Sound Up-mix derived from the original stereo masters.

"After the opening snake charmer-like flute notes of "The Steppes," drums boomed out from the next door church we used as an echo chamber, sounding more pagan than C of E in spirit. I was still in love with this killer band
that had versatility tattooed all over... Whilst Spectral Mornings was a hard act to follow, Defector pipped it in the charts by going Top Ten!" — Steve Hackett 2015

CD 1

1. The Steppes

2. Time To Get Out

3. Slogans

4. Leaving

5. Two Vamps As Guests

6. Jacuzzi

7. Hammer In The Sand

8. The Toast

9. The Show

10. Sentimental Institution

11. Hercules Unchained (B – side of single – released in June 1980)

12. Sentimental Institution (recorded at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 11th November 1979)

CD 2

1. The Air Conditioned Nightmare

2. Every Day

3. Ace Of Wands

4. Funny Feeling

5. The Steppes

6. Overnight Sleeper

7. Slogans

8. A Tower Struck Down

9. Spectral Mornings

10. The Show

11. Clocks – The Angel Of Mons

DVD

1. The Steppes

2. Time To Get Out

3. Slogans

4. Leaving

5. Two Vamps As Guests

6. Jacuzzi

7. Hammer In The Sand

8. The Toast

9. The Show

10. Sentimental Institution

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