"Abraxas 1970" - второй диск Сантаны моментально возглавил американский хит-парад. В него вошли классическая композиция Тито Пуэнте «Oye Como Va», а также бессмертная «Black Magic Woman», заставившая в версии Сантаны забыть о ее авторе, великом Питере Грине.

Fans of muscular progressive rock will love Solar Fire, a concept album loosely designed around cosmology. The album opens with the majestic "Father of Night, Father of Day," which has the drive and complexity of a prime King Crimson track. As unlikely as it may seem, the track was controversial in Mann's native South Africa because of the "Father of black, father of white" line, implying that apartheid might not extend to infinite space.