Artist: STEVE HACKETT
Album: PLEASE DON’T TOUCH REMASTERED (CD)

Year: 1978/ 2005
Media type: CD

Please Don't Touch! is the second solo album by English guitarist Steve Hackett, and his first after leaving Genesis in 1977. The album featured several guests including R&B singer Randy Crawford, American folk icon Richie Havens, the drummer and vocalist for the progressive rock band Kansas (Phil Ehart and Steve Walsh respectively), Frank Zappa alumnus Tom Fowler, Genesis concert drummer Chester Thompson, and Van der Graaf violinist Graham Smith. This was also Hackett's first album to feature his pioneering use of the Roland GR-500 Guitar Synthesizer.

In 2005, Please Don't Touch! was remastered and re-released by Hackett's Camino Records label. The new edition features updated liner notes and three bonus tracks.

TRACKLIST:

1."Narnia" (Steve Walsh vocal) - 4:05
2."Carry on Up the Vicarage" (Steve Hackett vocal) - 3:11
3."Racing in A" (Steve Walsh vocal) - 5:07
4."Kim" - 2:13
5."How Can I?" (Richie Havens vocal) - 4:38
6."Hoping Love Will Last" (Randy Crawford vocal) - 4:23
7."Land of a Thousand Autumns" - 1:38
8."Please Don't Touch" - 3:39
9."The Voice of Necam" - 3:11
10."Icarus Ascending" (Richie Havens vocal) - 6:27

2005 remaster bonus tracks:

1."Narnia" (John Perry vocal) - 3:36
2."Land of 1000 Autumns / Please Don't Touch (live)" - 7:53
3."Narnia" (Alternate version w/Steve Walsh vocal) - 4:30

LINE-UP:

Steve Hackett – electric. acoustic guitars, and Roland GR-500 Guitar Synthesizer. vocals, keyboards, percussion
John Hackett – flute, piccolo, bass pedals, keyboards
John Acock – keyboards, engineer
James Bradley – percussion
Phil Ehart – drums, percussion
Tom Fowler – bass
Richie Havens – vocals, percussion
Dave Lebolt – keyboards
Hugh Malloy – cello
Graham Smith – violin
Chester Thompson – drums, percussion
Steve Walsh – vocals on "Narnia" and "Racing in A"
Maria Bonvino – guest female soprano on "Hoping Love Will Last"
Randy Crawford – vocals on "Hoping Love Will Last"
Feydor – vocals on "The Voice of Necam"
Dale Newman – guest vocals on "Icarus Ascending"
Dan Owen – guest vocals on "Icarus Ascending"