The Secrets return to the road with a tour that represents a return to their roots. Acoustic concerts with a sober staging, chords for these times of pandemic. The next stops will be in Alicante and Murcia.

You undertake a tour that means a return to your roots. It supposes the bet by the history of always of The Secrets, which is a path forward always. We have planned a reunion tour with people. Is the public going to dare to go to concerts with fear in their bodies? I'm scared. I recognize it. Just like I was scared the first time I went on stage without my brother. Most groups end up breaking up. What is the key to staying together? We have never been number one in anything: neither cached nor in sales. The ruptures of the groups come through the valley areas, where you can't stand and you need to find your life and through the peak areas, where egos and fortune come into discussion. Since we have been in the middle of the table, we have always had to be united like a pineapple to recover from severe setbacks. Did you not have a commercial or business vision? My brother Enrique wanted to be appreciated for his music. We did not negotiate with our image, we did not want to be on the covers nor did we dress in any way. We were too normal. In 83, Polygram kicked us out. Why? We didn't sell what they expected. But now I tell you the real version. We made an album that has a banjo on the single. And the label's uncle said to us, "Okay, but where do I put this on the stations?" And he turned on the radio and Low Beats played, Olé Olé ... You didn't hear a guitar. It was the eighties music of the Movida, but it was not country. And he told us: "It is that your music smells like a cow. This is not going to be put on any radio station." Is the Movida overrated? It was a here I catch you, here I kill you. People forget that there was a worldwide Movement. TheNew wavefrom the late 70s or mid-80s with the Clash, the Sex Pistols ... We were burying Franco and there they were already hit him. What advice would you give your early self? Find yourself a good lawyer . And do not trust the one who tells you that this is a mere formality because those contracts can lead to ruin or chain you. And the second is that you stay away from drugs. How did they get into the group? In the bars we went to because it was the custom. No one warned us and we were very shy boys. We had no apprenticeship. You managed to get out, but your brother did not. People are confused. My brother Enrique suffered from a bipolar capacity to be fucking great or to get very depressed. He filled the low moments with any type of substance. He had a very bad time. The first doctor who treated my brother was from the early 1983's. It was not a matter of drug addiction, but that he was getting anguished. My brother had been in treatment since 83 and all that stopped us from going to America or some projects was because he didn't want to get away from his doctors very much. If he was so depressed, maybe he needed another type of treatment. Salvador, one of the doctors, once told me that my brother Enrique's life had been prolonged for a long time. They did not know how to help him. I was very angry because when my brother died all the media assumed that it was a heroin overdose. My brother was not taking heroin. Oh, no? He had taken it at one time, but he had not taken it for 10 years. It is true that he took cocaine at bad times. What caused his death was an overdose of medication. I don't usually tell this, but my brother Enrique tried to leave everything and heal because he had a daughter and he loved her madly. She wanted to be able to fight for custody of her daughter. It took a year without taking anything and had a relapse. What for him a year ago might be a normal dose of medication, in this case it was an unfortunate mixture. Why have we always thought it was heroin? Why do you think so? Where have you read it? It's what has always been told. It took two months to deliver the autopsy to me. The cause of his death was the mixing of pills with cocaine. What I would like to highlight is my brother's ability as a creator and as an innovator ahead of his time, but when the autopsy came out, did you not disclose it? Well-known journalists with names and surnames wrote that my brother Enrique was well known in Malasaña. But, if my brother Enrique did not need to go shopping when he had money. Whatever it was they brought home. There was so much misinformation and I got so angry that I said, "I'm going out now to make more controversy." And I thought it better that this go off. I spent a whole year without wanting to know anything about music and very angry with the whole world. It seemed to me an injustice and that an accident had occurred. My brother had ended unfairly in a way he didn't deserve. His talent and baggage were overshadowed by a doctrine that anyone who is into rock and roll and has problems is a drug addict or a heroin addict. Yes, heroin was part of the curriculum of the Secrets and, above all, of my brother Enrique, but as something anecdotal and very much in the past. The myth of your brother is growing every year. There are few Enriques Urquijos in the history of the Spanish music. Just as there are few Antonios Vegas and less than there will be. His legacy is the value of creating and defending a style. Musically it broke membranes. It seemed that if you were not commercial and you did not go through the hoop of certain aesthetic and pose standards, you were not going to succeed. The labels did no favors for people like Antonio Vega or Enrique Urquijo. Antonio Vega would have been great if they had taken him to record an album as a super-producer, but since it was problematic, they didn't. My brother Enrique has left a very free and very personal way of understanding music, which was not tied to industry and the market. Who's not doing reggaeton now? The Secrets got your slobber tag. Now he's a compliment. At the time it meant that we were a group that tuned their instruments, harmonized voices, and sang well. There were punk bands that barely knew three chords and sounded out of tune. Those of us who played songs part time called us slimy and I think they did it out of envy, honestly. Do you like to play classical songs? It would be a arrogance and a stupid attitude not to enjoy when your songs are making people enjoy. There are musicians who only play the last album at concerts and none of the greatest hits. past. I paid 15,000 pesetas to see Van Marrison at the Palacio de Congresos and he played only the last full album. The last 20 minutes were instrumental music by an Irish group. And we started to count all the songs that he hadn't played and we had to do two shows. And that day I said: "I will never do this in my life." Where are the Spanish groups now? Times have changed so much! Before, we used to go to the rehearsal places where we were Alaska and the Pegamoides, Los Zombies, Jam, the Elegantes and you would find 7 or 8 groups that released a record on the street. We were all awful. Some worse than others, but all very bad with some shitty teams. We spent all the money from the first tours to buy the equipment. It was sound with a shit of guitars and amps and without any technology. You had to rehearse the song 20 times so as not to forget the lyrics. Young lads now have much more preparation. There are young people who play very well. The level is better now, but the machines are supplying the ingenuity. The life of the rocker continues being sex, drugs and rock and roll. In my case, no. It is a topic that you end up dead. I took refuge in the guitar due to my shyness. It is true that rock and roll has a certain type of magnet for sex. Nobody paid attention to me and one day I took the guitar to school. I realized that all the girls I liked were close to me. And I said, "This is cool." It has some erotic. It also brings you closer to drugs. Music gives you certain licenses to be 40 years old and to continue smoking and drinking and playing rough. It allows you to have a childish behavior. It is global. You fuck a musician or a drummer or a bassist from Argentina and elsewhere and they have similar behaviors. Also we go by tribes. Singers are idiots on the one hand, guitarists have an ego that you can not even imagine, bassists are cut by the same pattern. There are jokes about bassists or drummers that are global. Who has more ego? The singer and solo guitarists are the most egocentric, but I repeat that in the case of the Secrets it was not. For us music was the most important thing. We had a very good musical culture. We were three brothers and the records that each one bought, we all heard. I have composed a song called 'If I could stop time' because many people I adored are dying and I do not see that there is a replacement for these idols.

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