Fenderman wrote:The should have sat down and tried to write an entire album by themselves. They had done it before. Or maybe draft in a few songwriters to help. Maybe a mixture of instrumentals and a few vocal tracks. If done right it would have sold well.
The Shadows have indeed done that with the "Guardian Angel" album from 1984. Of the eleven tracks, ten were original of which four were self-written and six written for them. It didn't do as well as the previous albums, so the next album "Moonlight Shadows" consisted of only covers. By the time "Reflection" was released in 1990, Hank had lived in Australia for almost four years and there wouldn't have been a lot of time to write new material together and the record company wouldn't have allowed them to record mainly own compositions for a new album.