Biografía

He wrote "She's Gone" after a girlfriend stood him up for a New Year's Eve party.

Was played by Robert Downey Jr. in a skit on Saturday Night Live (1975). Bandmate Daryl Hall was played by Anthony Michael Hall.

He and Daryl Hall released an album called "Do It for Love" (2003). The title song of the album "Do It for Love" went to No. 1 in the Adult Contemporary charts. The songs "Forever for You" reached #3, and "Man on a Mission" reached #16. They self-produced the album under their own record label.

Inducted into the International Mustache Hall of Fame (inaugural class) in the category Music & Arts (2015).

Attended Philadelphia's Temple University with bandmate Daryl Hall, both dropped out to pursue rock careers.

[In 1982]: We both had records out at the time - singles in Philadelphia, and they were local labels, small labels, and we were plugging in a record, we're at Record Hop about to go on and lip-sync. There was a number of groups there, and it was basically an excuse for the local gangs in the area that we're dressed up like fraternities to get together and fight broke out some shots, and some things like that, and we made it out the back, we went down the elevator and we're both going to the same school, and became friends. I joined his band, and the rest was history.

[on 1,000 Miles of Life]: It was a wake-up call for me. After 30-plus years devoting myself to my art and craft, I needed to make a musical statement that someday I could look back on and realize, at that moment of time, I did exactly what I wanted to do. I've never written songs like this. I was on this inspirational roll. There was an urgency to it. I realized that I had no more time in my life for rehearsals... and I took that energy into the studio.

[When he was a guest on one of Daryl Hall's shows, that was recorded live at Daryl's House]: It was a favorite of Daryl and mine. We saw The Mad Lads perform the song at the Uptown Theater in Philadelphia. I remember it because they wore yellow suits with white gloves. When Daryl and I met, and began to learn a little bit about each other, we discovered we both loved it. We've never played it live before. This will be a first.

[As to how he best described songwriting in that way]: Songwriters by nature are an interesting, engaging and quirky group of creative people... they absorb, refract and reflect the world, then filter it though their own emotional experiences and articulate it in the form of a song.

[on his own knack of writing songs]: I realized that although people were very familiar with many of the songs that I have written over the years... they had no idea about who or what was the inspiration behind them. In addition, people always seem fascinated and curious about the songwriter's creative process.