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Fraser Lewry

"It got bad because it just turned into this weird dark thing. It became cloak and dagger shit": Toto's Steve Lukather on how cocaine took over Los Angeles in the 1980s

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Toto guitarist Steve Lukather has spoken about how he was turned onto cocaine. Lukather was speaking with The Daily Telegraph in advance of Toto's UK tour, which began on Saturday at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland.

“It was unbelievable how [cocaine] overtook the city,” Lukather tells The Telegraph. “I didn’t even realise what was going on. I didn’t realise why there were five guys in the bathroom stall. I didn’t understand. I’d walk into the bathroom to take a leak and there’s all these guys in the stall. ‘Hey, what the fuck are you guys doing in there?’ ‘Nothing man, nothing kid.’

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