''Piel de Barrabás'' is a 1981 music album by the

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. It was the band's seventh album and the first after the band's four-year break. It marked the return of drummer José María Moll, and the arrival of new members Armando Pelayo, Susy Gordaliza and Koky Maning. A song inspired by the

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, "Please Mr Reagan, Please Mr Breznev", was released as a single in some countries, with "Laura" as the B-side. "On the Road Again" was also a single, with "Hard Line for a Dreamer" as the B-side, and this reached #9 in the Swiss charts.Entry at swisscharts.com
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Track listing

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Fernando Arbex José Fernando Arbex Miró (28 May 1941 – 5 July 2003) was an influential Spanish musician and songwriter from Madrid, who enjoyed success both with his own groups and also with other artists. While still in his teens, he was the drummer in Los ...

) – 5:52 #"What's Happened" (Arbex, Jorge Eduardo Maning) – 4:04 #"Hard Line for a Dreamer" (Arbex, Jesús Moll, José María Moll) – 4:45 #"Please Mr Reagan, Please Mr Breznev" (Arbex) – 5:53 #"Wild Cat" (Arbex) – 4:49 #"Jeronimo" (Arbex) – 5:20 #"Be the Way to Be" (Arbex, Jesús Gordaliza) – 3:39 #"Laura" (Arbex, Moll, Moll) – 5:02

Personnel

*José Luis Tejada –

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

*Jorge Eduardo "Koky" Maning –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

, vocals *Jesús "Susy" Gordaliza –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

, vocals *Ernesto "Tito" Duarte -

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ...

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

*Armando Pelayo –

keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Musi ...

*José María Moll –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

, vocals *Nani Prosper, Naomi Hussey, Mari Jamison, Paula Nerea – chorus vocals *

, Jordi Soley – production *Engineer – Luís Calleja *Mixed by Jame Rathbone *Photography – Peter Müller *Design – Juan Aboli *Recorded at Kirios Studios, Madrid

Release information

*Spain – Discos Columbia (RCA) TXS-3214 *Disconforme DISC 1996CD (2000 CD, re-released 2004)

References

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