At a key turning level in his '80s stardom, Rob Lowe set his sights past the silver display screen — into the uneven waters of yacht rock.

Whereas discussing the style with Invoice Simmons, government producer of HBO's Yacht Rock: A Documentary, the St. Elmo's Hearth actor revealed that he tried to pivot from one nook of the leisure trade to a different.

"There was a minute within the '80s the place I used to be undoubtedly doing an excessive amount of Bolivian marching powder and simply being a f—ing lunatic," Lowe recalled in a brand new episode of his podcast, Literally. "Coming on the time in a younger actor's profession the place they're too previous to play the roles they've been enjoying, however they're too younger to play the roles that can final you the remainder of your life, that are actually the good ones."

Lowe's incapability to safe good elements led him down a shocking path. "You’ll be able to form of really feel it, and I like music a lot," he stated, "that I bought it into my head that possibly I ought to assume extra about music. And I lower a demo with Toto."

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That's to not say that Lowe was aiming to hitch the band behind "Africa." The members of Toto have been a number of the most prolific session musicians of the Nineteen Seventies and '80s, contributing instrumentals, songwriting, and manufacturing within the studio for large artists like Michael Jackson, Cher, Diana Ross, Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer season, Elton John, Olivia Newton-John, Lionel Richie, and Aretha Franklin. It's seemingly, then, that Lowe known as on them to supply and assist recordings that may theoretically be launched below his personal title, moderately than the group's.

Sadly, Lowe's studio escapades by no means noticed the sunshine of day, and he has largely averted music-related tasks all through his profession, save for a couple of exceptions. They embrace his childhood gig singing within the theater troupe Peanut Butter and Jelly in Dayton, Ohio; an look within the 1984 Go-Go's video for "Flip to You"; and his unlucky "Proud Mary" duet with Snow White on the reviled 1989 Oscars.

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"Who weren't you concerned with in L.A. within the 80s?" Simmons requested.

"Most likely no person, as a result of I additionally took having enjoyable very significantly," Lowe stated.

Elsewhere within the podcast, Lowe recalled how his unwillingness to drive to Warren Beatty's home finally value him a romantic companion. After detailing how he lived in Level Dume, Malibu, for a lot of the Eighties (which Simmons described as "a long-ass drive from Hollywood"), the actor defined, "That's why, , Warren Beatty was capable of get my girlfriend to cheat on me with him — as a result of I refused to return to Warren Beatty's pool social gathering film nights, as a result of I used to be out in Malibu and the drive was too far."

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Lowe stated his girlfriend opted to attend the social gathering with out him. "So my girlfriend went and, , you are able to do the mathematics," he stated.

Surprised, Simmons requested, "What number of ladies did he discuss into possibly stepping except for who they're with for one night time?"

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Lowe responded with a salacious declare: "All of them. All of them. For those who bought a heartbeat in Los Angeles and have been in any respect fascinating or fairly, Warren was on it. He was a king."

Yacht Rock: A Documentary is streaming now on Max. Hearken to the complete episode of Actually above.

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