Time Passages

Time Passages
Studio album by Al Stewart
Released September 1978 (US), November 1978 (UK)
Recorded June 1978 at Davlen Studios, Los Angeles
Genre Rock
Length 44:38
Label UK: RCA (original release)
EMI (1991 reissue)
US: Arista (original release)
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (audiophile release)
Producer Alan Parsons
Al Stewart chronology
Year of the Cat
(1976)		 Time Passages
(1978)		 24 Carrots
(1980)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

Time Passages is the eighth studio album by Al Stewart, released in 1978. It is the follow-up to his 1976 album Year of the Cat. The album, like its predecessor, 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.

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

Contents

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

Historical references

Charts

Album – Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1978 Albums 10

Singles – Billboard (North America)

Year Single Chart Position
1979 "Time Passages" Pop singles 7
1979 "Time Passages" Adult contemporary 1
1979 "Song on the Radio" Pop singles 29

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Nichols, Thomas M. (Spring, 2001). "Soldiers and War: A Top Ten List". International Journal (Canadian International Council) 56 (2): 312–323, 317 n.1. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40203558. Retrieved June 30, 2011. "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." 
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) · Russians and Americans (1984) · Last Days of the Century (1988) · Famous Last Words (1993) · Between the Wars (1995) · Down in the Cellar (2000) · A Beach Full of Shells (2005) · Sparks of Ancient Light (2008)
Live albums
Live/Indian Summer (1981) · Rhymes in Rooms (1992) · Uncorked (2009)