The Inmates are a British pub rock band, which formed after the split of The Flying Tigers in 1977.
Around 1981, lead singer Bill Hurley became ill following a breakdown, and his place was taken for some time by Barrie Masters, who had recently split with Eddie and the Hot Rods.
[6] The Inmates continued to record (True Live Stories, a live album recorded by Vic Maile at London's the Venue nightclub and, Five, a studio album again produced by Maile) and tour with Masters until he decided to reform the Hot Rods, and Hurley was well enough to return to fronting the Inmates.
One of The Inmates' songs, "So Much in Love" (written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards),[8] was covered by Los Lonely Boys in the mid-1990s.
Another song, "I Can't Sleep" from their debut LP First Offence, was included as a chapter heading in the Stephen King bestseller Christine.