The Los Angeles-based writing and performing duo of singer/songwriter/guitarists Eric Lowen (born October 23, 1951; died March 23, 2012) and Dan Navarro (born September 14, 1952) was formed in 1987, although the two met a decade earlier. They were both singing waiters in a restaurant in West Hollywood in 1978; then they were members of a local band, Bon Mot, and began writing songs together. They first gained recognition when Pat Benatar featured their song "We Belong" (on which Lowen was identified as David Lowen) on her album Tropico, released on November 24, 1984. The track was issued as a single that peaked at number five in the Billboard Hot 100 on January 5, 1985. Lowen & Navarro wrote songs for the films Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987; "It's Time to Move") and Casual Sex? (1988; "[She's A] Wild Card"), and they were brought in as writers on the Bangles' third album, Everything, released in October 1988, co-writing "Something to Believe In" with David White and the group's Michael Steele, and "I'll Set You Free" with White and the group's Susanna Hoffs; the album reached the Top 20 and went platinum. (Another song by Hoffs and Lowen & Navarro, "Everything I Wanted," eventually turned up on the Bangles' platinum-selling Greatest Hits LP in May 1990.)