Ian Hunter

Defiance Part 2: Fiction is the follow-up to rock legend Ian Hunter’s successful 2023 album, Defiance. Featuring another stacked lineup of guest appearances, including Johnny Depp, Lucinda Williams, Brian May, and Jeff Beck’s final recordings, to list a few, this Deluxe Edition 2 LP set contains 3 exclusive bonus tracks.

Defiance Part 2: Fiction is the follow-up to rock legend Ian Hunter’s successful 2023 album, Defiance. Featuring another stacked lineup of guest appearances, including Johnny Depp, Lucinda Williams, Brian May, and Jeff Beck’s final recordings, to list a few, this Deluxe Edition 2 LP set contains 3 exclusive bonus tracks.

The follow-up from the successful 2023 album, Defiance, from rock legend Ian Hunter. Defiance Part 2: Fiction is yet another stacked featured guest lineup, including Johnny Depp, Lucinda Williams, Brian May, and Jeff Beck's final recordings, to list a few.

Defiance Part 2: Fiction is the follow-up to rock legend Ian Hunter’s successful 2023 album, Defiance. Featuring another stacked lineup of guest appearances, including Johnny Depp, Lucinda Williams, Brian May, and Jeff Beck’s final recordings, to list a few, this Deluxe Edition 2 LP set contains 3 exclusive bonus tracks.

Defiance Part 2: Fiction is the follow-up to rock legend Ian Hunter’s successful 2023 album, Defiance. Featuring another stacked lineup of guest appearances, including Johnny Depp, Lucinda Williams, Brian May, and Jeff Beck’s final recordings, to list a few, this Deluxe Edition 2 LP set contains 3 exclusive bonus tracks.

Listening to this album is to hear a real tragedy for rock & roll - a tragedy that this supergroup, as opposed to such overhyped outfits as Blind Faith and Ginger Baker's Air Force, never got its work out in its own time, and that Pappalardi and Ronson are no longer with us. From the opening notes of "Easy Money" to the ironic final track, "Growing Old With Rock 'n Roll," it radiates inspiration, power, and authority in songwriting and execution, and extraordinary boldness. As fine as Ronson's playing is - and he does some great mandolin-style riffing, apart from some of his most inspired and fluid rock leads (in tandem with Leslie West on three tracks) - the dominant players are Laing at the drum kit and Pappalardi on bass, who seemingly pick up right where Mountain left off. Coupled with Hunter's songwriting and his and Laing's singing, the whole effect is of a top-flight hard rock band running on all cylinders from the get-go, one that could have blown any rivals off the stage.