This article is a discography of albums and singles released by the guitarist-songwriter Steve Hackett.
Solo career Camino Records was founded by Hackett with the original goal of re-releasing selections from his solo career, but Hackett eventually also released new albums on the label.
Studio albums Title Album details Peak chart positionsUKSWENORUS NLDGERFRASWIVoyage of the Acolyte Released: October 1975 UK label: Charisma US label: Chrysalis Formats: LP, CS, CD, digital download 26 — — 191 — — — —Please Don't Touch! Released: April 1978 UK label: Charisma US label: Chrysalis Formats: LP, CS, CD, digital download 38 23 — 103 — 49 — —Spectral Mornings Released: May 1979 UK label: Charisma US label: Chrysalis Formats: LP, CS, CD, digital download 22 30 — 138 — — — —Defector Released: June 1980 Label: Charisma Formats: LP, CS, CD, digital download 9 30 22 144 — — — —Cured Released: August 1981 UK label: Charisma US label: Epic Formats: LP, CS, CD, digital download 15 29 21 169 — — — —Highly Strung Released: April 1983 UK label: Charisma US label: Epic Formats: LP, CS, CD, digital download 16 — — — — — — —Bay of Kings Released: October 1983 Label: Lamborghini Formats: LP, CS, CD, digital download 70 — — — — — — —Till We Have Faces Released: August 1984 Label: Lamborghini Formats: LP, CS, CD, digital download 54 — — — — — — —Momentum Released: March 1988 Label: Start Formats: LP, CS, CD, digital download — — — — — — — —Guitar Noir Released: May 1993 Label: Camino Formats: CS, CD, digital download — — — — — — — —Blues with a Feeling Released: 10 October 1994 Label: Camino Formats: CS, CD — — — — — — — —Genesis Revisited Released: 23 September 1996 UK label: Camino US label: Snapper Formats: LP, CS, CD 95 — — — — — — —A Midsummer Night's Dream(with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) Released: 1 April 1997 Label: Angel Formats: CS, CD — — — — — — — —Darktown Released: 26 April 1999 Label: Inside Out Music Formats: CD, digital download 156 — — — — — — —Sketches of Satie(with John Hackett) Released: 8 May 2000 Label: Inside Out Music Formats: LP, CD, digital download — — — — — — — —Feedback 86 Released: 9 October 2000 Label: Camino Formats: CD, digital download — — — — — — — —To Watch the Storms Released: 17 June 2003 Label: Camino Formats: CD, digital download — — — — — — — —Metamorpheus(with The Underworld Orchestra) Released: 5 April 2005 Label: Camino Formats: CD — — — — — — — —Wild Orchids Released: 12 September 2006 Label: Camino Formats: CD, digital download — — — — — — — —Tribute Released: 11 February 2008 Label: Camino Formats: CD — — — — — — — —Out of the Tunnel's Mouth Released: 30 October 2009 Label: Wolfwork/EAR Music Formats: LP, CD, digital download 173 — — — — — — —Beyond the Shrouded Horizon Released: 27 September 2011 Label: Inside Out Music Formats: LP, CD, digital download 133 — — — — 63 178 —A Life Within a Day(with Chris Squire as Squackett) Released: 28 May 2012 Label: Esoteric Antenna Formats: CD, digital download 173 — — — — — — —Genesis Revisited II Released: 22 October 2012 Label: Inside Out Music Formats: LP, CD, digital download 24 — — — 52 32 119 80Wolflight Released: 27 March 2015 Label: Inside Out Music Formats: LP, CD, digital download 31 — — — 49 49 128 58The Night Siren Released: 24 March 2017 Label: Inside Out Music Formats: LP, CD, digital download 28 — — — 43 22 101 39At the Edge of Light Released: 25 January 2019 Label: Inside Out Music Formats: LP, CD, digital download 28 — — — 72 13 151 21Under a Mediterranean Sky Released: 21 January 2021 Label: Inside Out Music Formats: LP, CD, digital 52 — — — — — — —Surrender of Silence Released: 10 September 2021 Label: Inside Out Music Formats: LP, CD, digital download 38 — — — — 10 — 25The Circus and the Nightwhale Released: 16 February 2024 Label: Inside Out Music 30 — — — 73 11 — 15The Roaring Waves Released: 28 August 2026 Label: Inside Out Music 24 — — — 15 6 — 9 "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
Live albums Title Album details Peak chart positionsUKGERSWINLDBEL (FL)BEL (WA)Time Lapse Released: July 1992 Label: Camino Formats: CD — — — — — —There Are Many Sides to the Night Released: August 1995 Label: Camino Formats: CD — — — — — —The Tokyo Tapes Released: 27 April 1998 Label: Camino Formats: 2CD, digital download — — — — — —Live Archive 70s, 80s, 90s Released: 12 November 2001 Label: Camino Formats: 4CD — — — — — —Live Archive 70s Newcastle Released: 12 November 2001 Label: Camino Formats: CD — — — — — —Somewhere in South America... Released: 19 November 2002 Label: Camino Formats: 2CD — — — — — —Live Archive NEARfest Released: 28 June 2003 Label: Camino Formats: 2CD — — — — — —Hungarian Horizons Released: 23 July 2003 Label: Camino Formats: 2CD — — — — — —Live Archive 03 Released: February 2004 Label: Camino Formats: 2CD — — — — — —Live Archive 04 Released: 28 June 2004 Label: Camino Formats: 2CD — — — — — —Live Archive 05 Released: 23 August 2005 Label: Camino Formats: 2CD — — — — — —Live Archive 83 Released: 17 June 2006 Label: Camino Formats: CD — — — — — —Live Rails Released: 25 April 2011 UK label: Wolfwork US label: Inside Out Music Formats: 2CD, digital download — — — — — —Genesis Revisited:Live at Hammersmith Released: 18 November 2013 Label: Inside Out Music Formats: 3CD+DVD, digital download 58 17 97 53 195 78Genesis Revisited:Live at the Royal Albert Hall Released: 8 July 2014 Label: Inside Out Music Formats: 2CD+DVD, digital download 80 23 — — — 109The Total Experience Live In Liverpool Released: 24 June 2016 Recorded: Friday 23 October 2015 At Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Label: Inside Out Music Formats: 2CD+DVD, digital download 77 25 90 — 86 —Wuthering Nights: Live in Birmingham Released: 26 January 2018 Recorded: May 2017 Label: Inside Out Music Formats: 2CD+DVD, digital download 54 25 — 88 — 103Genesis Revisited Band & Orchestra: Live at the Royal Festival Hall Released: 25 October 2019 Recorded: October 2018 Label: Inside Out Music Formats: 2CD+DVD, digital download — 32 85 — — —Selling England By The Pound & Spectral Mornings: Live At Hammersmith Released: 25 September 2020 Recorded: 2019 Label: Inside Out Music Formats: 2CD+DVD, digital download — — — — — —Genesis Revisited Live: Seconds Out & More Released: 2 September 2022 Recorded: 24 September 2021 Label: Inside Out Music Formats: 2CD+DVD, digital download, streaming 28 13 — 24 73 68Foxtrot at Fifty + Hackett Highlights: Live in Brighton Released: 15 September 2023 Recorded: 2022 Label: Inside Out Music Formats: 2CD+DVD, digital download, streaming 51 24 28 46 134 96The Lamb Stands Up Live at the Royal Albert Hall Released: 11 July 2025 Recorded: 12 October 2024 Label: Inside Out Music Formats: 2CD+Blu-Ray, digital download, streaming 68 11 26 24 79 84 "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
Compilation albums Title Album details The Unauthorised BiographyReleased: 26 October 1992 Label: Virgin Formats: CD
Box sets Title Box set details PremonitionsReleased: 16 October 2015 Label: Universal Music Group Formats: 10CD+4DVD Broken Skies - Outspread WingsReleased: 5 October 2018 Label: Inside Out Music Formats: 6CD+2DVD
Videos Title Video details Peak chart positionsSWEThe Tokyo Tapes Released: 1 October 2001 Label: Camino Formats: DVD —Somewhere in South America... Released: 19 November 2002 Label: Camino Formats: DVD —Somewhere in South America... Released: 19 November 2002 Label: Camino Formats: DVD+2CD 17Horizons Released: 1 July 2003 Label: Classic Rock Productions Formats: DVD —Hungarian Horizons Released: 23 July 2003 Label: Camino Formats: DVD —Hungarian Horizons Released: 23 July 2003 Label: Camino Formats: DVD+2CD —Once Above a Time Released: 25 November 2004 Label: Eagle Vision Formats: DVD —Fire & Ice Released: 25 September 2012 Label: Wolfwork Formats: DVD —The Bremen Broadcast Released as: 28 October 2013 Label: Cherry Red Formats: DVD —The Man, The Music Released: 7 September 2015 Label: Wienerworld Formats: DVD — "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
Singles "Ace of Wands" / "The Hermit" (1975) 1 "Star of Sirius" (Edited - Mono) / "Star of Sirius" (Edited - Stereo) (1976) "How Can I?" / "Kim" (1978) "Narnia" (remix) / "Please Don't Touch" (1978) – withdrawn release? "Every Day" / "Lost Time in Cordoba" (1979) "Clocks - The Angel of Mons" (alternate version) / "Acoustic Set" (live) (1979) "Clocks" (alternate version) / "Acoustic Set" (live) / "Tigermoth" (live) 12" single (1979) "The Show" / "Hercules Unchained" (1980) "Sentimental Institution" / "The Toast" (1980) "Hope I Don't Wake" / "Tales from the Riverbank" (1981) "Picture Postcard" / "Theme from 'Second Chance'" (1982) "Cell 151" (single edit) / "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare" (1983) – UK #66 "Cell 151" (long version) / "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare" (live) / "Time Lapse at Milton Keynes" 12" single (1983) "Cell 151" (track listing as above) limited edition 12" doublepack with shrinkwrapped 12" white label of "Clocks" 12" (track list as above) (1983) "Walking Through Walls" (single remix)" (1983) – withdrawn but 7" & 12" one-sided Utopia acetates were pressed "A Doll That's Made In Japan (part 1)"/ "A Doll That's Made In Japan (part 2)" (1984) "A Doll That's Made in Japan" (long version) / "Just the Bones" 12" single (1984) "Days of Long Ago" promo (1991) "Brand New" (radio edit) / "Brand New" (album version) (2003) "Sea of Smiles" / "Perfect Love Song" (2012 with Chris Squire as Squackett) "Til These Eyes" / "Enter The Night" (radio mix) (2012) – download only "Behind the Smoke" (2017) "People of the Smoke" (2023) "Wherever You Are" (2024)
Soundtracks Outwitting Hitler (2001, score to the Showtime documentary) Note: This was not an album, but consisted only of three instrumental tracks, each about a minute in length. They were only made available via a free MP3 download page on Steve's website. The musical themes were subsequently featured in tracks from Metamorpheus.
Appeared on Sacred Scenes And Characters by Canterbury Glass (1968) (1 track: Prologue) - The album was recorded in 1968 but published only in 2007. Two Sides of Peter Banks by Peter Banks (1973) (1 track : Knights (Reprise), also featuring Phil Collins) Voo de Coracao by Ritchie (1984) (1 track : Voo de Coração):pt:Vôo de Coração Wind in the Willows by Eddie Hardin (1985) (1 track : Wind in the Willows) Strangeland by Box of Frogs (1986) (2 tracks : Average and Trouble) Orchestral Maneuvres: The Music of Pink Floyd by David Palmer and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (1991) Gallery of Dreams by Gandalf (1992) (7 tracks: Face the Mirror, Alone Again, Between Different Worlds, Another Dream, Song of the Unicorn, Lady of the Golden Forrest and End of the Rainbow, the last of which Hackett co-wrote) Arkangel by John Wetton (1997) (2 tracks : Nothing Happens for Nothing and All Grown up) Drivers Eyes by Ian McDonald (1999) (2 tracks : You Are a Part of Me and Straight Back to You) Sinister by John Wetton (2001) (1 track : Real World) Sheafs Are Dancing by Djabe (2003) (1 track : Reflections of Thiérache) Emergent by Gordian Knot (2003) (3 tracks : Muttersprache, Some Brighter Thing and Singing Deep Mountain) Hexameron by Nick Magnus (2004) (3 tracks : Singularity, Seven Hands of Time and The Power of Reason) Checking Out of London by John Hackett (2005) (4 tracks : Late Trains, The Hallway and the Pram, Ego & Id and Headlights) ? by Neal Morse (2005) Swiss Choir by Chris Squire (2007) U-Catastrophe by Simon Collins (2008) (1 track : Fast Forward the Future) Sitting on the Top of Time by Jim McCarty (2009) (1 track : Living from the Inside Out) JL by Algebra, (2009) (1 track : Il molo deserto) The Book of Bilbo and Gandalf by Marco Lo Muscio (2010) (1 track: Galadriel)