Passion
Rod Stewart | Artist Essentials
First released: 1980 (year verified)
Original 1980 solo studio recording
MusicAtlas editorial note: The recurring keyboard figure creates a persistent undercurrent beneath the short vocal phrases.
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Release evidence and recording details
First released: 1980 (year verified)
Original 1980 recording; year precision avoids assigning a later single campaign, concert, remaster or annual-list date as the first release.
Recording: Original 1980 solo studio recording
Credit: Rod Stewart
Role in this collection: Primary artist
Original album: Foolish Behaviour
Original release-cycle association; the supported year is retained without asserting an earliest day.
Foolish Behaviour - original album and Passion single
Label history explicitly places Foolish Behaviour and its Passion single in 1980. The article description of the preceding album year is not used. | Reviewed 2026-10-17
Rod Stewart - original Warner studio album years
The label explicitly lists the original studio album years from Atlantic Crossing in 1975 to Vagabond Heart in 1991. The 2019 box release does not replace original recording years. | Reviewed 2026-10-17
In the yearly lists
These are listening-list appearances, separate from the first-release date.
The retained 1981 annual hit is the original solo Passion single identified by the label in its 1980 album cycle.
Foolish Behaviour - original album and Passion single
Label history explicitly places Foolish Behaviour and its Passion single in 1980. The article description of the preceding album year is not used. | Reviewed 2026-10-17
About Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart is a British singer whose rasping voice connects blues, folk, soul and popular ballads. His early performing work included the Jeff Beck Group and Faces, while a parallel solo career produced Gasoline Alley and Every Picture Tells a Story. Maggie May and You Wear It Well paired storytelling with acoustic textures and rock rhythms. Later recordings broadened his repertoire through interpretations of songs such as Sailing and Downtown Train. Guitarist Ronnie Wood was an important collaborator in Stewart's early solo work.
Artist background sources
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Rod Stewart, 1994 induction essay
Michael Hill essay supports vocal style, early groups versus parallel solo career, named solo repertoire and Ronnie Wood collaboration; anecdotal origin stories and group-credit mapping omitted. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-17. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
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