Time Passages

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Time Passages
Time Passages cover
Studio album by Al Stewart
Released September 1978 (US), November 1978 (UK)
Recorded Davlen Studios, Los Angeles, June 1978
Genre Rock
Length 44:38
Label RCA (UK), Arista (US)
Producer Alan Parsons
Professional reviews
Al Stewart chronology
Year of the Cat
(1976)		 Time Passages
(1978)		 24 P/Carrots
(1980)

Time Passages is the eighth album by Al Stewart, released in 1978. It is the follow up of his 1976 album Year of the Cat. The album, like its predecessor, was produced by Alan Parsons. The album's epic length title track (which, when edited, reached #7 on the Billboard charts) and "End of the Day" were both co-written by Peter White.

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

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Time Passages" – 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" – 3:11


[edit] Historical references

"A Man For All Seasons" - Sir Thomas More, statesman in Henry VIII's reign

"The Palace of Versailles" - The French Revolution, starting with the storming of the Bastille in 1789, through the Reign of Terror, the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, and the military coup of Napoleon Bonaparte

"Life in Dark Water" - references the Marie Celeste

[edit] Charts

Album – Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1978 Albums 10

Singles – Billboard (North America)

Year Single Chart Position
1978 "Time Passages" Singles 7
1979 "Song on the Radio" Singles 29
v • d • e
Al Stewart
Studio Albums
Bed-Sitter Images (1967)  · Love Chronicles (1969)  · Zero She Flies (1970)  · Orange (1972)  · Past, Present and Future (1973)  · Modern Times (1975)  · Year of the Cat (1976)  · Time Passages (1978)  · 24 Carrots (1980)  · Live/Indian Summer (1981)  · Russians and Americans (1984)  · Last Days of the Century (1988)  · Rhymes in Rooms (1992)  · Famous Last Words (1993)  · Between the Wars (1995)  · Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (1996)  · Down in the Cellar (2000)  · A Beach Full of Shells (2005)


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