Beyond Appearances
Studio album by Santana
Released	February 1985
Recorded	March 28 – November 1, 1984
Studio	Record One (Los Angeles) Plant Studios (Sausalito, California)
Genre	Rock
Length	44:39
Label	Columbia
Producer	Val Garay
Santana chronology
Shangó (1982) Beyond Appearances (1985) Freedom (1987)

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	(unfavorable)[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]

Beyond Appearances is the fourteenth studio album bySantana, released in 1985 (see1985 in music).

The album took seven months to make, and involved a mostly different line-up from the previous one,Shangó (released in 1982): apart fromCarlos Santana, singerAlex Ligertwood and percussionistsArmando Peraza, Raul Rekow andOrestes Vilató were still with the band. This was singer Greg Walker's first album with Santana sinceInner Secrets - he had left in 1979, and returned in 1983. As a result, the band had two vocalists at the time. It also was bassistAlphonso Johnson's first of two albums with the group, having joined in 1984; and the only one to featureChester Thompson on drums andDavid Sancious on keyboards. It also was the first with Chester D. Thompson on keyboards; he would remain with the band until the 2000s.

Musically, it was firmly in the style of the 1980s, making much use ofsynthesizers anddrum machines.

Beyond Appearances performed relatively poorly, reaching only fifty on theBillboard album chart; one of its tracks, "Say It Again", reached number 46 on theBillboard Hot 100singles chart (though it performed better onBillboard'sMainstream Rock Tracks chart, reaching number fifteen).^[4]

1. "Breaking Out" (Alphonso Johnson,Alex Ligertwood) – 4:30
2. "Written in Sand" (Mitchell Froom, Jerry Stahl) – 3:49
3. "How Long" (Robbie Patton) – 4:00
4. "Brotherhood" (David Sancious,Carlos Santana, Chester D. Thompson) – 2:26
5. "Spirit" (Johnson, Ligertwood, Raul Rekow) – 5:04

1. "Say It Again" (Val Garay, Steve Goldstein, Anthony La Peau) – 3:27
2. "Who Loves You" (Santana, Thompson, Orestes Vilato) – 4:06
3. "I'm the One Who Loves You" (Curtis Mayfield) – 3:17
4. "Touchdown Raiders" (Santana) – 3:08
5. "Right Now" (Ligertwood, Santana) – 5:58

1. "Breaking Out" (Johnson, Ligertwood) – 4:30
2. "Written in Sand" (Mitchell Froom, 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" (Mayfield) – 3:17
8. "Say It Again" (Garay, Goldstein, La Peau) – 3:27
9. "Two Points of View" (Ligertwood, Santana) – 4:54
10. "How Long" (Patton) – 4:00
11. "Touchdown Raiders" (Santana) – 3:08

• Carlos Santana – guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar, vocals
• Alphonso Johnson – bass
• Chester D. Thompson – synthesizer, bass, keyboards, organ
• David Sancious – rhythm guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, guitar
• Chester Cortez Thompson – drums, bass pedals
• Greg Walker – lead and background vocals
• Alex Ligertwood – rhythm guitar, lead and background vocals, harmony
• Bryan Garofalo – bass
• Steve Goldstein – synthesizer, Fairlight CMI, keyboards
• Craig Krampf – drums, DMX drum machine
• Armando Peraza – bongos, percussion, shakers, congas
• Orestes Vilato – bells, timbales, percussion, cymbals, woodblocks, vocals
• Mitchell Froom – 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

• "How Long" arrangement: Robbie Patton, David Adelstein
• "Say It Again" associate producer: Steve Goldstein
• Mitchell Froom appears courtesy of Slash Records
• Recorded byVal Garay & Richard Bosworth at Record One, Los Angeles
• Assisted by Duane Seykora
• Mixed by Val Garay at Record One
• Additional recording: Plant Studios, Sausalito
• Assistant engineer: Wayne Lewis, Glen Holguin
• "Right Now" mixed by Jim Gaines
• All information gathered from back cover of vinyl release.

• Santana (band) albums
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• Columbia Records albums
• Albums produced by Val Garay

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