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

[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.