Enigmatic musician and producer Don Was came of age during Detroit’s tumultuous, yet musically fruitful period of the late 1960s/early ’70s, before founding the genre-hopping band Was (Not Was) in the early 1980s. The 1981 single “Out Come The Freaks” established Was (Not Was) as a free-thinking dance ensemble capable of rocking a groove. Their breakthrough, however, came... Wikipedia