The Gospel According to Luke

by Steve Lukather

called my parents up and told them, “Your son has no talent for music whatsoever and you should really discourage him from ever playing an instrument.”

Thanks to Dee Dee’s dad, I got paid another 250 bucks a week for my time. Right then, you could rent an apartment in downtown LA for 300 dollars a month, so I was properly able to call myself a working musician.

The other thing about Luke was that no matter who it was that we were playing for and whatever the quality of music, he would always bring his A-game to the date, never the B. Not that

We went on cold in our kimonos and having no clue as to how to interact with each other, much less our audience. I hit the opening chord of our first song, “I’ll Supply the Love,” and my guitar cut out.

Elton told me that he had written the whole of the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album, all seventeen songs of it, in two days flat. He said that he had just got on a roll.