Toto
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Interview by 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, ...
Interview by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, 25 March 2021
STEVE LUKATHER has played on countless records owned and streamed worldwide. For most musicians, just being a founder member and only constant of Toto would ...
Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 30 January 2018
"If this is a hit," I said, "I'll run naked down Hollywood Boulevard." ...
Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 3 February 1979
THIS COULD HAVE BEEN an unholy disaster. A group of Los Angeles session men forming their own band could have been the signal for God-knows-what ...
Toto: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 28 June 2011
LAST YEAR saw veteran American soft-rockers Journey enjoy an Indian summer with their 1980 hit 'Don't Stop Believin''. A full three decades after its initial ...
Report by J.D. Considine, Musician, October 1981
Band like REO, Styx and Journey have taken the details of the rock sound and made the medium the whole message, capitalizing on the rock ...
Interview by Joe Matera, Mixdown, 2002
THE NAME STEVE LUKATHER is well respected amongst musicians and guitarists alike worldwide. Still in his teens, Lukather joined Boz Scaggs' backing band, then went ...
Profile by John Tobler, Virgin Yearbook, 1982
A THEORY was circulating during the last two or three years to the effect that the acts dominating the US album charts, and therefore the ...
Singles Reviewed by MARK COOPER
Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 22 January 1983
THE GAP BAND 'Outstanding' (Polygram) Yet another soul concerto from The Gap Band with a monstrously hard-hitting handclap from the engine room and a vocal ...
More Than a Feeling: The 20 Greatest AOR Tracks of All Time!
Guide by Matthew Hamilton, Rock's Backpages, July 2009
Author's Note: I have found that most discussions of AOR get easily sidetracked unless it's made clear which definition of the AOR acronym we're using. ...
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 17 March 1979
WILL THESE people never learn? In the time-honoured Hollywood tradition of foisting ambitious super-sessioners upon that large portion of the American public bereft of a ...
Interview by Mike Mettler, Rock's Backpages, April 2008
HAVE WE PERHAPS witnessed the last hurrah for the mega-selling studio-musos-cum-touring-phenoms Toto? According to guitarist/vocalist/co-founder Steve Lukather, "we're winding it down. This DVD [Falling in ...
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 10 February 1979
Toto: So-So at the Roxy ...
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 19 January 1980
The money programme ...
Toto: A Growth Industry For Modern People
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 10 March 1979
A TOTO/SANDY ROBERTSON MULTI PLATINUM FINANCIAL READOUT ...
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), February 2008
Steve Lukather's resumé over the last three decades not only showcases a prolific musician, it also suggests a wildly divergent talent unafraid of variety. The ...
Toto: The Roxy, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 17 March 1979
We're an American b(l)and ...
see also Steve Lukather
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