Like the rest of prog’s old guard, Steve Hackett was acutely aware of the ‘adapt or die’ climate of the mid-80s. “Record companies would say, ‘I don’t hear a career song,’” the guitarist recalled in 2022, explaining his more mainstream direction on Feedback ’86.
Actually made between 1984 and 1987, first released in 2000, and echoing the AOR-style of GTR – Hackett’s short-lived supergroup with Steve Howe – the album had one eye on MTV and another on film soundtracks.
