Beyond Appearances is the thirteenth studio album

Album

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 by Santana

Santana (band)

Santana is a rock band based around guitarist Carlos Santana and founded in the late 1960s. It first came to public attention after their performing the song "Soul Sacrifice" at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, when their Latin rock provided a contrast to other acts on the bill...

, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music

1985 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1985.-January–March:*January 1 - The newest music video channel, VH-1, debuts on American cable. It is aimed at an older demographic than its sister station, MTV...

).

The album took seven months to make, and (apart from Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana

Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...

 himself) involved a completely different line-up from Santana's previous album (released two and a half years earlier). It was firmly in the style of the 1980s, making much use of synthesizer

Synthesizer

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s and drum machine

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s. Beyond Appearances performed relatively poorly, reaching only fifty on the Billboard 200

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 album chart; one of its tracks, "Say It Again", reached number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100

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 singles

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 chart (though it performed better on Billboard

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's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, reaching number 15).

Track listing

1. "Breaking Out" (Johnson, Ligertwood) – 4:30
2. "Written in Sand" (Mitchell Froom
   Mitchell Froom
   -Career:Froom began his career as a keyboard player in Sonoma County, California. The band Crossfire featured two keyboards players; Mitchell on one side of the stage and brother David on the other with Gary Pihl on guitar...
   
   , Jerry Stahl) – 3:49
3. "Brotherhood" (Sancious, Santana, Thompson) – 2:26
4. "Spirit" (Johnson, Ligertwood, Rekow) – 5:04
5. "Right Now" (Ligertwood, Santana) – 5:58
6. "Who Loves You" (Santana, Thompson, Vilato) – 4:06
7. "I'm the One Who Loves You" (Curtis Mayfield
   Curtis Mayfield
   Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer.He is best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly, Mayfield is highly...
   
   ) – 3:17
8. "Say It Again" (Garay, Goldstein, Lapeau) – 3:27
9. "Two Points of View" (Ligertwood, Santana) – 4:54
10. "How Long" (Patton) – 4:00
11. "Touchdown Raiders" (Santana) – 3:08

Personnel

• Carlos Santana
  Carlos Santana
  Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...
  
   – guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar, vocals
• Alphonso Johnson
  Alphonso Johnson
  Alphonso Johnson is an American jazz bassist who has been influential since the early 1970s.-Biography:Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Johnson started off as an upright bass player, but switched to the electric bass in his late teens. Beginning his career in the early 1970s, Johnson showed...
  
   – bass
• Chester D. Thompson – synthesizer, bass, keyboards, organ
• David Sancious
  David Sancious
  David Sancious is an American musician. He was an early member of Bruce Springsteen's backing group, the E Street Band, and contributed to the first three Springsteen albums, and again on the 1992 album Human Touch. Sancious is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known as a keyboard player and...
  
   – rhythm guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, guitar
• Chester Cortez Thompson
  Chester C. Thompson
  Chester Charles Thompson was an Illinois politician who represented Illinois' 14th District in the United States House of Representatives from 1933 to 1939. Before serving in Congress he served the people as Rock Island County Treasurer and as mayor of Rock Island.-Early life:Thompson was born...
  
   – drums, bass pedals
• Greg Walker – lead and background vocals
• Alex Ligertwood
  Alex Ligertwood
  Alex Ligertwood is a Scottish singer, guitarist and drummer, best known as the lead vocalist of Santana...
  
   - rhythm guitar, lead and background vocals, harmony
• Bryan Garofalo - bass
• Steve Goldstein - synthesizer, keyboards
• Craig Krampf
  Craig Krampf
  Craig Krampf is an American musician and songwriter.The majority of his notable credits are as a studio drummer. Since the 1970s, he has played on albums by other artists ranging from Steve Perry to Alabama to Kim Carnes to Flo and Eddie to Alice Cooper to Melissa Etheridge...
  
   - drums, DMX drum machine
• Armando Peraza
  Armando Peraza
  Armando Peraza is a Latin jazz percussionist. Through his long associations with jazz pianist George Shearing, vibraphonist Cal Tjader and guitarist Carlos Santana, he has been internationally known from the 1950s through to the 1990s...
  
   - bongos, percussion, shakers, congas
• Orestes Vilato
  Orestes Vilató
  Orestes Vilató is a Timbalero/Bongosero.He went to New York City at the age of 12, after his father was recruited to be in charge of international flights inaugurated by Cubana de Aviación...
  
   - bells, timbales, percussion, cymbals, woodblocks, vocals
• Mitchell Froom
  Mitchell Froom
  -Career:Froom began his career as a keyboard player in Sonoma County, California. The band Crossfire featured two keyboards players; Mitchell on one side of the stage and brother David on the other with Gary Pihl on guitar...
  
   - string synthesizer
• Raul Rekow - chekere, congas, shakers, vocals
• David Adelstein - synthesizer, DMX drum machine, synthesizer bass
• John Woodhead - guitar
• Anthony LaPeau - background vocals
• Craig Hull - guitar
• F. Bob Getter - string bass

Credits

• "How Long" arrangement: Robbie Patton, David Adelstein
• "Say It Again" associate producer: Steve Goldstein
• Mitchell Froom appears courtesy of Slash Records
• Recorded by Val Garay & Richard Bosworth at Record One, Los Angeles
• Assisted by Duane Saykora
• Mixed by Val Garay at Record One
• Additional recording: Plant Studios, Sausalito
• Assistant engineer: Wayne Lewis
• "Right Now" mixed by Jim Gaines

• All information gathered from back cover of vinyl release.