Passion (Peter Gabriel album)
1989 soundtrack album by Peter Gabriel / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Passion (re-released as Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ) is an album released in 1989 by the English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel. It was the first Peter Gabriel album to be released on Real World Records, Gabriel's second soundtrack, and his eighth album overall.
Passion | ||||
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Released | 5 June 1989 | |||
Recorded | February 1988 – March 1989 | |||
Studio | Real World, Box, UK | |||
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Length | 67:03 | |||
Label | Geffen (US & Canada) Virgin Real World | |||
Producer | Peter Gabriel | |||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Chicago Tribune | [3] |
Entertainment Weekly | B+[4] |
Los Angeles Times | [5] |
NME | 6/10[6] |
The Philadelphia Inquirer | [7] |
Q | [8] |
Record Collector | [9] |
Rolling Stone | [10] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [11] |
Passion was originally composed as the soundtrack album for Martin Scorsese's film The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), but Gabriel spent several months after the film's release further developing the music, finally releasing it as a full-fledged album instead of a movie soundtrack. The album was released in June 1989 (almost a year after the theatrical release of The Last Temptation of Christ in August 1988) as a vinyl double album and a 1-disc CD.
Passion is seen as a landmark in the popularisation of world music, and won a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album in 1990. It was remastered with most of Gabriel's catalogue in 2002.