in 1986 they travelled to london to record their first full album "noches como esta"; but it's in 1988, with the album "vámonos", when they achieved major success, thanks mostly to the hugely successful single "mil calles llevan hacia ti", which reached #1 in the spanish 40 principales chart in 1989, and which became the band's signature song. manuel españa said he had written the song while walking through the streets of the albayzín in granada to his grandmother's house. "vámonos" went on to become a multi-platinum album, selling over 250.000 copies, and the band performed on a tour with more than 100 dates.