Rob Lowe could have become a pop star! The actor revealed this in his podcast “Literally! With Rob Lowe”. Lowe became famous in the 80s as part of the so-called Brat Packwith films like The Outsiders (1983) and Hotel New Hampshire (1984).
When Lowe spoke with his podcast colleague Bill Simmons about this time and the yacht-rock “documentary” Simmons has just produced, it turns out that Lowe once flirted with a second career in music. However, he freely admitted that he was under the influence of a lot of cocaine.
Lowe calls himself a “fucking lunatic” and said the coke was to blame
“There was a minute in the ’80s where I was definitely taking too much Bolivian marching powder and was just a fucking lunatic. And there comes a time in a young actor’s career when he is too old to play the roles he has played so far, but too young to play the roles that stay with you for the rest of your life , i.e. the really big roles. And you can kind of feel that,” Lowe said. “I love music so much that it occurred to me that maybe I should think more about music. And I recorded a demo with Toto.”
“I took having fun very seriously”
That was said to have been in the mid-eighties – exactly when both parties were getting married: Lowe was, among other things, thanks to “St. Elmo’s Fire” (1985) is a sought-after heartthrob. Toto had just had a worldwide hit with “Africa” (from the album “Toto IV”, 1982). Yacht rock, or AOR, as it was also called, was a huge thing back then. A number of Grammys went to the Doobie Brothers, Christopher Cross and Toto, as Simmons explains in the podcast. When he jokingly asks Lowe if he’s actually with anyone in Los Angeles none The actor replies: “Probably not, because she took having fun very seriously.”
Rob Lowe said nothing about whether this Toto demo still exists and will ever be released. He also revealed that he is actually working on a sequel to “St. Elmo’s Fire” works. However, the project is still “in its early stages”.