![]() ![]() Steps: ‘We used to live on £10 a week after paying the rent’.He didn't answer so I put the keys though the door and left.” He had left the keys in it, though, so I got it started and drove it up onto his lawn and knocked on the door. “But he just put the car there and put a lock on the door. “He didn’t own the land or the cabin,” says Oates. I worked in the day and slept at night.” But Oates found Thompson’s 1973 Chevrolet Caprice convertible - nicknamed “Red Shark” - locked into his “cabin” – he’s presumably referring to a log-built garage space. “I didn’t meet him at first,” says Oates, “He worked at nights and slept in the day. Turns out he bought a house over the road from gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson. Things weren’t totally calm for Oates in the countryside, though. I got remarried, had a kid, built a house.” I shaved off my moustache, which felt symbolic. I left New York City for Colorado, sold everything I had, and started my life over again. Just go and look at our faces on the video of that night – it’s all online. I don’t know when we’ve had a better show. So we thought we would bring things full circle by inviting Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin on stage with us. “We’d been there to see The Temptations just after we first met, and it had been an incredible night. Oates told me he realised he needed a break after the duo were invited to reopen the Apollo in New York in 1985. In a disturbing twist, the serial killer David Berkowitz claimed that he’d been “inspired” to commit his 1977 “Son of Sam” killing spree by the bouncy melody to “Rich Girl”. The Seventies hits began to flow slowly from that point, including 1975’s “Sara Smile” (about Hall’s then-girlfriend and collaborator Sara Allen) and 1976’s “Rich Girl” (actually about an arrogant, ex-boyfriend of Allen). When Daryl came in the next day, he sat down at the piano and gave it a more groove-oriented R&B sound.” But she didn’t show up, so I sat on my own with this acoustic guitar, playing this sorrowful lament. We’d seen each other once or twice and arranged to meet for New Year’s Eve. The song was written by Oates, “about a girl I met in Village in the middle of the night wearing a tutu and cowboy boots. But their second album, Abandoned Luncheonette (1973) saw them sway up the charts with the cafe soul of “She’s Gone”. ![]() Their 1972 debut album, Whole Oats, didn’t yield a hit. ![]()
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