Rob Lowe Says He 'Took Having Fun Very Seriously' in the '80s — So Much So That He Almost Made a Song with Toto

If Brat Pack-era Rob Lowe hadn't turned out the way he did, we might have ended up with a yacht rock version of the star instead.

On an episode of Literally! With Rob Lowe, the 60-year-old star of The Outsiders spoke with Bill Simmons, creator of the pop culture website The Ringer, taking a deep dive into music during their podcast conversation.

During the episode, the star revealed that in the mid-'80s, he nearly recorded a demo with the iconic rock band Toto. At the time, the band was likely still riding the wave of success from their hit song "Africa," now one of the best-selling songs of all time.

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Lowe explained to Simmons that around that time, when the actor was coming off some of his best-known movies like The Outsiders and St. Elmo's Fire, he was stuck on his next career move.

"There was a minute in the '80s where I was definitely doing too much Bolivian marching powder [a euphemism for cocaine] and just being a f---ing lunatic," he said to Simmons with a laugh. (Lowe has been sober since 1990.)

Lowe went on to explain to Simmons that, at the time, he felt he was at a point in his career as a young actor when he was too old to play the roles he had been playing up until the point, but simultaneously too young to play the roles that he said would last a young actor "the rest of their life, which are the great ones."

"I love music so much as evidenced by this talk and all of that, that I got it into my head that maybe I should think more about music and I cut a demo with Toto," Lowe went on to reveal to Simmons.

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"This is one of the reasons you're the world's most interesting man," Simmons told Lowe. "You were partying with the Showtime Lakers as they were winning titles during the Magic Johnson era. Who weren't you involved with in L. A. in the '80s?"

"Probably nobody, because I also took having fun very seriously," Lowe joked.

Lowe had just burst onto the Hollywood scene in the '80s, navigating a new, superstar life and some frenzied fandom.

"It was crazy stuff," Lowe, 60, told PEOPLE recently while reminiscing about those transformative moments. "It's the kind of stuff you look back on and go, did that really happen?"

It was also around that time that Lowe cemented his position in the group that later came to be known as the Brat Pack, which consisted of young actors including Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy, who were all starring in teen-centric movies together at the time.

"I remember them having to bring me on and off the set of St. Elmo's Fire in a police car, and that wasn't the first or only time," he said. "The stories I have are mental, they're nuts."

"I'm super grateful that I can say that I had that in my life, because very few people get to be that person," he added. "Every decade there's a new crop and society demands it. It's fun to watch that unfold having been there."

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