Marathon
marked the addition of keyboard player
Alan Pasqua
and singer
Greg Walker
's replacement by singer/guitarist
Alex Ligertwood
in the
Santana
lineup. Otherwise, the album was notable for consisting entirely of band-written material, although those songs were in the established
R&B
/
rock
style evolved on albums like
Amigos
,
Festival
, and
Inner Secrets
. The formula seemed to be wearing thin by now, however, as, even with a Top 40 hit in
"You Know That I Love You"
(number 35),
became the first
album to fall below the 500,000-sales mark necessary for gold record certification. (It has since made the mark.) ~ William Ruhlmann