Time (Rod Stewart album)

Time is the twenty-eighth studio album by Rod Stewart, it was released on 3 May 2013 in the UK, on 7 May in the US and Canada, and on 8 May in Japan under the title "Time: Toki no Tabibito" (タイム~時の旅人~).^[3][2] In May 2013, Stewart released Time, a rock album of his own original material. It marked a return to songwriting after what Stewart termed "a dark period of twenty years"; he said that writing his autobiography gave him the impetus to write music again.^[4] The album entered the top 10 in the US and entered the UK Albums Chart at No. 1, setting a new British record for the longest gap between chart-topping albums by an artist, as his last studio album to reach the top spot was A Night on the Town in 1976.^[5] The album was certified platinum in the UK on 16 August 2013 and double-platinum on 29 December 2017.^[6] Overall, the album was the No. 7 best-selling album of 2013 in the UK.^[7] In the United States, the album has sold 141,000 copies as of September 2015.^[8]

Time
Studio album by Rod Stewart
Released	3 May 2013^[1]
Recorded	April 2011–January 2013 at Satinwood Studios, Santa Clarita, California, The Celtic Place, Los Angeles; Sunset Sound, Los Angeles; RAK Studios, London; Echo Beach Studios, Florida and Bridge Recording, Glendale, California
Genre	Rock
Length	50:10
Label	Capitol, Decca, UCJ^[2]
Producer	Rod Stewart, Kevin Savigar (co-producer)
Rod Stewart chronology
Merry Christmas, Baby (2012) Time (2013) Another Country (2015)
Singles from Time
"She Makes Me Happy" Released: 19 March 2013 "It's Over" Released: 19 March 2013 "Brighton Beach" Released: 5 May 2013 "Can't Stop Me Now" Released: 4 September 2013

Singles and other releases

"It's Over" is the album's lead European single and it joined BBC Radio 2's playlist in April 2013 and Kingstown Radio's new music file; the single peaked at No. 91 on the UK Singles Chart. In North America, the album's lead single, "She Makes Me Happy", peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. Both singles were accompanied by music videos directed by Cameron Duddy. The third single, "Brighton Beach", followed shortly after, with the music video directed by Zach Merck. "Beautiful Morning" was originally available by download in 2012 via a code found inside the CD booklet for his Christmas album Merry Christmas, Baby, albeit differing from the final mix included on the Time album.

In the UK, a deluxe 2-disc version of the album was released on 2 December 2013. It contains live tracks from his 2013 performance at The Troubadour, West Hollywood as well as all the bonus tracks previously available on the UK and US/Canada deluxe editions of the album; the live songs include 6 songs from the Time album as well as previous hits. Ahead of the release of the 2-disc version of the album, "Can't Stop Me Now" was released as a single and peaked at No. 22 on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and at No. 199 on the UK Singles Chart. "Sexual Religion" was also released as a single in the US, where it peaked at No. 45 on Billboard's "Dance/Club Songs" chart.^[9]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"She Makes Me Happy"	Rod Stewart, Chuck Kentis, Don Kirkpatrick, Conrad Korsch, David Palmer, Paul Warren	3:44
2.	"Can't Stop Me Now"	Stewart, Kevin Savigar	4:26
3.	"It's Over"	Stewart, Savigar, John 5	4:19
4.	"Brighton Beach"	Stewart, Jim Cregan	4:25
5.	"Beautiful Morning"	Stewart, Savigar, Kentis, Kirkpatrick, Korsch, Palmer, Warren	3:58
6.	"Live the Life"	Stewart, Kentis, Kirkpatrick, Jessica Rousseau	4:26
7.	"Finest Woman"	Stewart, Savigar, Emerson Swinford	3:54
8.	"Time"	Stewart, Savigar, Swinford	4:26
9.	"Picture in a Frame"	Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan	2:53
10.	"Sexual Religion"	Stewart, Savigar	4:45
11.	"Make Love to Me Tonight"	Stewart, Kentis, Kirkpatrick, Korsch, Palmer, Warren	3:44
12.	"Pure Love"	Stewart, Savigar	5:10

UK and iTunes exclusive bonus tracks

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
13.	"Corrina Corrina"	Traditional	3:26
14.	"Legless"	Stewart, Kentis, Kirkpatrick, Korsch, Palmer, Warren	3:50
15.	"Love Has No Pride"	Eric Kaz, Libby Titus	4:04

Target exclusive bonus tracks

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
13.	"Here Comes the Night"	Bert Berns	3:28
14.	"Cold Water"	Waits, Brennan	3:59
15.	"Shake Your Moneymaker"	Elmore James	2:40

UK Deluxe Edition Bonus Disc Tracks

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Can't Stop Me Now (Live From The Troubadour, West Hollywood 2013)"	4:14
2.	"Forever Young (Live From The Troubadour, West Hollywood 2013)"	4:36
3.	"It's Over (Live From The Troubadour, West Hollywood 2013)"	4:43
4.	"Rhythm of My Heart (Live From The Troubadour, West Hollywood 2013)"	6:11
5.	"Finest Woman (Live From The Troubadour, West Hollywood 2013)"	4:19
6.	"You Wear It Well (Live From The Troubadour, West Hollywood 2013)"	3:42
7.	"She Makes Me Happy (Live From The Troubadour, West Hollywood 2013)"	3:55
8.	"Have I Told You Lately (Live From The Troubadour, West Hollywood 2013)"	4:47
9.	"Brighton Beach (Live From The Troubadour, West Hollywood 2013)"	4:47
10.	"Sexual Religion (Live From The Troubadour, West Hollywood 2013)"	5:16

Personnel

• Rod Stewart – lead vocals
• Kevin Savigar – keyboards (1–3, 5, 7, 10, 12), programming (1, 2, 5, 7, 10), string arrangements and conductor (3, 12), celesta (6), acoustic piano (12)
• Chuck Kentis – keyboards (3, 6, 10), guitars (3), string arrangements (3, 4), accordion (4), programming (6), harmonica (6), acoustic piano (9), Hammond B3 organ (11)
• Emerson Swinford – guitars (1–3, 5, 7, 8, 10), mandolin (1, 5), dulcimer (1), acoustic guitar, electric guitar (6), slide guitar (11)
• Jim Cregan – acoustic guitar (4)
• Don Kirkpatrick – 12-string guitar, electric guitar (5), acoustic guitar (6, 9), guitars (11)
• Paul Warren – electric guitar (9), guitars (11)
• Conrad Korsch – bass guitar (3–5, 8, 9, 11)
• Kenny Aronoff – drums (1, 5), tambourine (1)
• David Palmer – drums (3, 9, 11)
• Matt O'Connor – maracas (1, 7, 8), shaker (1), tambourine (6, 7)
• J'Anna Jacoby – violin (1, 6, 11), strings (4, 9), mandolin (6)
• Jimmy Roberts – saxophone (5, 7, 10)
• Nick Lane – trombone (7)
• Lee Thornburg – trumpet (7)
• Sandy Chilla – backing vocals (1, 2, 6, 11)
• Sharlotte Gibson – backing vocals (1, 11)
• Di Reed – backing vocals (1, 3, 5-8, 10, 11)
• Lucy Woodward – backing vocals (1, 3, 5-8, 10)
• Bridget Anne Cady – backing vocals (5, 10)
• Kim Johnson – backing vocals (5–7, 10)
• Angela Fisher – backing vocals (8)
• Angela Michael – backing vocals (11)

Production

• Producer – Rod Stewart
• Co-Producers – Kevin Savigar (Tracks 1–3, 5-8 & 10); Chuck Kentis (Tracks 3, 9 & 11); Jim Cregan (Track 4).
• Engineered and Mixed by Kevin Savigar
• Additional Engineer – Tom Weir
• Strings recorded by Dave Blanco
• Mastered by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering (Hollywood, CA).
• Art Direction and Design – Julian Peploe
• Cover and Principal Photos – Penny Lancaster
• Additional Photography – Lotus Donovan and Cammy Kinney
• Management – Arnold Stiefel at Stiefel Management.

Charts and certifications

Charts

Chart (2013) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)^[10] 6 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)^[11] 7 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[12] 45 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[13] 52 Canadian Albums (Billboard)^[14] 4 Danish Albums (Hitlisten)^[15] 17 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)^[16] 34 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[17] 4 Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)^[18] 25 Irish Albums (IRMA)^[19] 3 Italian Albums (FIMI)^[20] 29 Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[21] 25 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[22] 5 Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)^[23] 25 Polish Albums (ZPAV)^[24] 12 Scottish Albums (OCC)^[25] 1 South African Albums (RISA)^[26] 20 Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)^[27] 16 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)^[28] 7 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[29] 12 UK Albums (OCC)^[30] 1 US Billboard 200^[31] 7

Year-end charts Chart (2013) Position UK Albums (OCC)^[32] 7 Certifications Region Certification Certified units/sales Canada (Music Canada)^[33] Gold 40,000^^ United Kingdom (BPI)^[34] 2× Platinum 600,000^‡ ^^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ^‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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