- 1. JUST HOLDING ON
- 2. DIRTY STREET
- 3. COOL IT
- 4. WE'LL MAKE IT TOGETHER
- 5. SAVE ME, SAVE ME
- 6. LOVE IS SYMPHONY
- 7. GREAT IS OUR LOVE
- 8. LIVE GIRL
- 9. BABY I LOVE YOU
- 10. WAIT A MINUTE
- 11. COMO SUPERMAN
- 12. TWO PEOPLE IN ME
Los Bravos
Ilustrísimos
MR-SSS05
- Released: December 15, 2009
Reissue of the fourth album by Los Bravos, the most international Spanish band from the 60s, known all over the world for their smash hit ‘Black Is Black’. Recorded in London in 1968 with arrangements by Jean Bouchety, it contains songs by Vanda-Young, Augusto Algueró, Reed-Mason and Manolo Díaz. The cover picture was taken by renowned photographer Alberto Schommer.
In 1969, when “Ilustrísimos Bravos” is released, Spain’s most international band has just split. It’s a complex story, told in detail by Germán Alonso Moreno in his essential “Los Bravos: recuerdos de una leyenda” (AHE, 2004). Let’s recap: at the end of 1968, producer Alain Milhaud, responsible for Los Bravos’ success, announces at the Café Gijón in Madrid that singer Mike Kennedy is leaving the band to work as a solo artist. At the same public event, a lawyer turns up to declare that the group also wants to part ways with Milhaud. It was a dramatic move that ended up in negotiations so that Los Bravos could keep the rights to the band’s name and continue with another vocalist: Englishman Anthony Anderson, brother of Jon Anderson, by then frontman of Yes.
