Toto: Losing The Studio Tan
Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 10 March 1979
DAVID PAICH has the grizzly, rough-hewn features of a particularly underhand heavyweight wrestler. The image is blown by a hugely infectious grin that recurs frequently, and an immense bellowing laugh that accompanies anything remotely resembling humour.
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