30 Years Ago: Steve Hackett and Steve Howe Unite for ‘GTR’
By Matt Wardlaw July 25, 2016 12:05 PM
“I felt that the two of us would bring out brilliant spirits to bear on this,” he says. “What we were aware of was the idea that we had to make it as songwriters on this. ‘When the Heart Rules the Mind’ was the track that was the hit, which Steve Howe and I had written. Geoff Downes had written ‘The Hunter,’ the second track which was the second single, which didn’t fare as well. But I had the impression that Geoff was considered by Clive Davis to be the writer and that we were really the musicians, and in fact, of course, in the long term, what proved to be correct was that it was the track that Steve Howe and I wrote together that was the hit. … There really wasn’t a second single from that album. I think that if there had been a second single taking off then, we would have been giving
Fleetwood Mac a run for their money.”
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