Time Passages Explained

Time Passages
Type:Album
Artist:Al Stewart
Cover:Time_passages.jpg
Released:8 September 1978[1]
Recorded:June 1978
Studio:Davlen Studios, Los Angeles
Genre:Soft rock, folk rock
Length:44:38
Label:UK: RCA (original release)
EMI (1991 reissue)
US: Arista (original release)
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (audiophile release)
Rhino (2004 remaster)
Producer:Alan Parsons
Prev Title:Year of the Cat
Prev Year:1976
Next Title:24 Carrots
Next Year:1980

Time Passages is the eighth studio album by Al Stewart, released in September 1978. It is the follow-up to his 1976 album Year of the Cat. Like "Year of the Cat" and 1975's Modern Times, it was produced by Alan Parsons. The album's title track (which, when edited, reached #7 on the Billboard charts) and "End of the Day" were both co-written by Peter White. The title track occupied #1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts for 10 weeks.

A digitally remastered version of the album was released in 2004.

Artwork

The album's front and back cover were designed by Hipgnosis. As Storm Thorgerson stated in For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis, "For Al's Time Passages we showed a radio being tuned on the shelf of a kitchen window but at the same time "tuning" the view of the landscape outside the window". The front cover photograph was taken at Indian Route 42, Monument Valley, Arizona.[2]

Track listing

Songs written by Al Stewart unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Time Passages" (Al Stewart; Peter White) – 6:41
  2. "Valentina Way" – 4:04
  3. "Life in Dark Water" – 5:49
  4. "A Man for All Seasons" – 5:50
  5. "Almost Lucy" – 3:43
  6. "The Palace of Versailles" – 5:20
  7. "Timeless Skies" – 3:34
  8. "Song on the Radio" – 6:22
  9. "End of the Day" (Al Stewart; Peter White) – 3:11

Historical references

Personnel

Charts

Year-end charts

Notes and References

  1. Web site: BPI.
  2. Web site: Musical Maps.
  3. Nichols. Thomas M. . Soldiers and War: A Top Ten List . International Journal . Spring 2001 . 56 . 2 . 312–323, 317 n.1 . 40203558 . Canadian International Council . In a 1980 interview, Stewart lamented his reference in the song about More to Henry Plantagenet when he meant Henry Tudor. How many of his fans caught the error is unknown. . 10.2307/40203558.
  4. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 294.
  5. Web site: Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts. 1979. GfK Entertainment Charts. de. 2 April 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20211108121805/https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/album-jahr/for-date-1979. 8 November 2021.