Please Don't Touch

by Steve Hackett

Please Don't Touch cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: April 1978
  • Label: Charisma
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 54:28
  • Community rating: 3.37/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released shortly after his official departure from Genesis, 'Please Don't Touch' finds Hackett exploring a highly eclectic range of styles, utilizing multiple guest vocalists including Richie Havens and Steve Walsh. The arrangements freely juxtapose pastoral acoustic interludes against robust, symphonic rock instrumentation.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, fantasy, progressive

Tracklist

  1. Narnia (4:05)
  2. Carry On Up The Vicarage (3:10)
  3. Racing In A (5:06)
  4. Kim (2:12)
  5. How Can I? (4:38)
  6. Hoping Love Will Last (4:22)
  7. Land Of A Thousand Autumns (1:37)
  8. Please Don't Touch (3:38)
  9. The Voice Of Necam (3:10)
  10. Icarus Ascending (6:26)
  11. Narnia (3:36)
  12. Land Of A Thousand Autumns / Please Don't Touch (7:52)
  13. Narnia (4:30)

Credits

  • Tom Fowler - bass
  • Hugh Malloy - cello
  • Kim Poor - cover [illustration], illustration [cover]
  • Chester Thompson - drums, percussion, membranophone percussion
  • Phil Ehart - drums, percussion, membranophone percussion
  • Dale Newman - equipment, guest [vocals]
  • Dan Owen - equipment, guest [vocals]
  • David LeBolt - keyboards, keyboard

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