After making the one-off single "Cinco de Mayo" for LAX Records in 1981 (Jerry Goldstein's own label, which also reissued "Eric Burdon Declares "War"" under the title "Spill the Wine" the same year), War signed with RCA Victor Records and recorded "Outlaw" (1982) which included the single plus additional singles "You Got the Power", "Outlaw", and "Just Because". It was followed by "Life (is So Strange)" (1983) from which the title track was also a single. War's records from 1979 to 1983 were not as successful as those from the preceding decade, and after the two RCA albums, the band's activities became sporadic. They did not record another full album until a decade later. The 1987 compilation album "The Best of War ...and More" included two new tracks, "Livin' in the Red" and "Whose Cadillac Is That?", and a remixed version of "Low Rider" (in addition to the original version). Papa Dee Allen died of a brain aneurysm which struck him onstage in 1988.