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In 1974 Santana collaborated with Alice Coltrane and ex-Miles Davis jazz bassist David Holland, among others, for the string-dominated Illuminations; it didn't sell as well as Love, Devotion, Surrender, which had gone gold. Borboletta featured contributions from Clarke and Brazilian musicians Airto Moreira and Flora Purim. Lotus stands out in Santana's mid-'70s period; the three-record set was recorded in Japan and long unavailable in America except as a costly import.
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Santana's contract was likely to set a record for pitchers, topping the $126 million, seven-year deal Barry Zito got from the San Francisco Giants last offseason. Santana was due $13.25 million in the final year of his contract with the Twins, and it was expected his deal with the Mets would be worth about $150 million over seven seasons.
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More radio-oriented singles followed from Santana the band. "Winning" in 1981 and "Hold On" ( a remake of Canadian artist Ian Thomas's song) in 1982 both reached the top twenty. After his break with Sri Chinmoy, Santana went into the studio to record another solo album with Keith Olson and legendary R&B producer Jerry Wexler. The 1983 album revisited Santana's early musical experiences in Tijuana with Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love" and the title cut, Chuck Berry's "Havana Moon". The album's guests included Booker T. Jones, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Willie Nelson and even Santana's father's mariachi orchestra. Santana again paid tribute to his early rock roots by doing the film score to La Bamba, which was based on the tragically short life of rock and roll legend Richie Valens and starred Lou Diamond Phillips.
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Mets fans are glad Santana ended up in Queens. On Friday, the team had sold about 100,000 more tickets than at the same time last year, when it set a franchise attendance record at 3.85 million. By Wednesday, sales were 175,000 tickets ahead of last season's pace.
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