Great keyboardist as much as a show-off, arrogant and egocentric. Hackett has not infrequently managed, with one of his guitar interventions, to elevate great pieces that were previously dominated by Tonio's presumption (a glaring example being Firth Of Fifth). In the early years, however, he did a great job (Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot), and that must be acknowledged. Ah, he was the one who brought the Genesis into the mainstream.
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