La rubia tarada

The story behind

Sumo recorded «La rubia tarada» in 1985, but its seed was already in a 1983 demo called Corpiños en la madrugada. There, the title «Una noche en New York City» already peeked out, which would later mutate into the one we all know. The song not only started as just another track on the album Divididos por la felicidad, but it became the push that took the band out of Buenos Aires pubs and onto the stage at the Astros theater. At three minutes and forty-three seconds, the song claimed the top spot on the album and remained the hit that defined that era.