It was released on May 24, 1988, in Spain and Spanish America, 1989 in Italy and 1990 in France under Ariola Records.

The title of the album was taken from a line in the fifth single "El blues del eslavo".

The album spawned 6 singles, "No Hay Marcha en Nueva York", "Los Amantes", "Mujer Contra Mujer", "Un Año Más", "La Fuerza del Destino" and "El Blues del Esclavo", all of them being released from June 1988 to July 1989.

Meanwhile, in Spain, "Ay, Qué Pesado", "Hijo de La Luna", "Cruz de Navajas" and "Me Cuesta Tanto Olvidarte" become breakthrough hits topping the Spanish charts for several weeks and leading Mecano to the top of best selling artist in Spain again.

1 in France and Italy; it was also an overwhelming hit in Latin America, and most remarkably in the cases of Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Puerto Rico and Nicaragua, where homosexuality was punished in their laws at that time.

"Mi costa tanto scordarti" (It's so hard for me to forget you,) was also recorded, but it was taken out of the final selection.

The album itself didn't meet sales expectations in Italy despite the success of the tracks.

This was the first album by Mecano to be addressed to a French audience, even though the release has just one song in French "Une femme avec une femme" (A woman with a woman), an adaptation of "Mujer contra mujer" under the supervision of P. Grosz.