The Spanish group Mecano released six studio albums, one live album, nine compilation albums, five video albums and more than 40 singles. In their career, it is estimated that Mecano has sold 25 million albums worldwide.[1]
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Mecano is one of the most commercially successful Spanish albums of all time, selling not much after its release 350.000 pure units and by the end of the year it had already sold over 1.000.000 only in Spain. Thus elevating Mecano to become the best selling Spanish group and artist of the moment.[4]
The musical works from Mecano included a total of eleven albums that sold more than 25 million copies worldwide. Outside of their home country, the trio was especially successful in France, Belgium and Germany, and naturally in Spanish-speaking countries such as Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela and Chile. Mecano also has a large fan base among Latinos in the USA.
The Story of Mecano starts with a painting, made in 1977 by founder Dirk Polak after finding an old booklet belonging to a Meccano construction box. The example, in this construction booklet, shows a figure that was called a sudden appearance. Dirk was struck by a vision of a world built out of Meccano, in drawing, painting, sculpture and even lyrics and music. Dirk began painting Meccano figures, surrounded by surrealistic landscapes and interiors. In those days punk was booming and Dirk thought it was time to start a band. Mecano was born and spread their punk wings over the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany and a lot of other countries, which resulted in the albums: Untitled, Subtitled, Retitled, Entitled and Autoportrait. Mecano starts touring in the Netherlands, Belgium and France. The complex way of touring gave a lot of trouble in the band. The band decided to stop touring and after a while they even decided to stop playing together. In 1982 three members (Dirk, Cor and Tejo) of the band recorded Autoportrait which came out out early in 1983. After the release the music stopped and every member went in his own direction. It became very silent for many years but Mecano never died, it only took a long suggestive sleep.
Ils comptent plus de 25 millions d'albums vendus dans le monde (principalement dans les pays latins) ce qui leur vaut d'être surnommés les Beatles espagnols. Ils sont considérés comme une référence pop en Espagne à la fois grâce aux thèmes modernes abordés nouveaux pour l'époque (homosexualité, drogue, vie sociale) et par certains titres phares dont Mujer Contra Mujer (Une femme avec une femme) repris par d'autres artistes.
En pleine gloire commerciale et critique, le groupe prend des vacances après la tournée mondiale de 1992 et ne se reformera jamais vraiment depuis. Ana Torroja se lance en solo et sort jusqu'à ce jour 9 albums (dont un double live avec Miguel Bosé et un album français). Nacho Cano écrit 4 albums, dont certains seront traduits intégralement en anglais, français et allemand. Il crée trois comédies musicales qui reprennent les titres de Mecano ou les siens. José María Cano compose un opéra lyrique Luna, avec entre autres, Montserrat Caballé et Plácido Domingo, très éloigné de l'univers pop de Mecano, puis un album folk pop Josécano. Depuis, il a abandonné le monde musical pour se consacrer à la peinture et signe des œuvres sous le pseudonyme Cano de Andrès et expose partout dans le monde. Son style pictural touche à la fois l'univers de l'impressionnisme (notamment le pointillisme) et l'art contemporain. 2ff7e9595c
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