Time Passages | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
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 | |||
Al Stewart chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [3] |
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.
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".[ citation needed] The front cover photograph was taken at Indian Route 42, Monument Valley, Arizona. [4]
Songs written by Al Stewart unless otherwise noted.
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United Kingdom ( BPI) [13] | Silver | 60,000^ |
United States ( RIAA) [14] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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.