While Fortgang eventually released a solo album in 2013, titled All the Music in the World, consisting of the demos he had created in the 1970s, "Some Guys Have All the Luck" was not one of the tracks.
In 1982, English singer Robert Palmer released a version of the song as a single from his live/studio album Maybe It's Live.
Palmer told Max Bell in 1989: I was working with Moon Martin when I wrote "Some Guys".
[8]Upon its release, Ian Birch of Smash Hits described Palmer's version as "a great combination of limb-loosening rhythm and immediate melody" and predicted the song would reach the UK Top 5.
She continued, "Nicely spastic beat tempered with frantic outbursts and a Beatley catch, decorated with gilt-edged explosions.
"[10] Ian Penman of NME believed it to be "merely average" as "whatever it's all about gets buried under a variety of vain vocal mannerisms", while "a dozen rhythms battl[e] against one another for foreground space and no real rush, all just sludge".
Stewart's version incorporated a vocal refrain from "Ain't Got No Home" by Clarence "Frogman" Henry.
Stewart began using the Palmer-style arrangement in live concerts in 2003 after Palmer's death as a tribute, with live female backup vocalists and a horn player wearing identical dresses, similar to Palmer's signature music videos.