Power and the Passion (album)

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Power and the Passion
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Released1975
RecordedJune–August, 1975
Studio Nedeltschev, Cologne, Germany
Length42:23
Label Electrola
Producer Eloy [1]
Eloy chronology
Floating
(1974)
Power and the Passion
(1975)
Dawn
(1976)
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Power and the Passion is the fourth studio album by the German rock band Eloy, [3] released in 1975. The story follows Jamie, the son of a scientist, who absorbs a "time eroding" drug and finds himself in Paris, in the year 1358. He meets Jeanne, whom he introduces to marijuana. After time spent in jail following a peasants' mutiny against their landlord, Jamie finds an eccentric magician that sends him back to his own time frame.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Eloy and Gordon Bennit.

Side One
  1. "Introduction" – 1:11
  2. "Journey into 1358" – 2:54
  3. "Love Over Six Centuries" – 10:09
  4. "Mutiny" – 9:08
Side Two
  1. "Imprisonment" – 3:13
  2. "Daylight" - 2:38
  3. "Thoughts of Home" - 1:05
  4. "The Zany Magician" - 2:48
  5. "Back into the Present" - 3:02
  6. "The Bells of Notre Dame" - 6:21

2001 Remastered Edition Bonus Track

  1. "The Bells of Notre Dame (Remix 1999)" - 6:34

Personnel

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References

  1. "Power and the Passion > Credits". Allmusic.
  2. Couture, François (2011). "Power and the Passion - Eloy | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
  3. "allmusic ((( Power and the Passion > Overview )))". www.allmusic.com.