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Weezer had a smash hit with their cover of Toto's "Africa" and it worked out well for both bands in the end, but what does Toto guitarist Steve Lukather really think about how the whole thing went ...

Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty; Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty How does Weezer's Rivers Cuomo feel about "Africa" by Toto? Over six years after the "Island in the Sun" band released a cover of "Africa ...

Virtually everything about Weezer covering Toto’s “Africa” was strange, from the social media campaign that sparked the cover in the first place to the music video starring Weird Al Yankovic ...

Whether it's being requested by your pal on a night out for the billionth time or the punch line to a meme, Africa by Toto is the song the internet just can't seem to shake off. It was one of the ...

In 2018, in response to months of campaigning by an Ohio teenager named Mary, Weezer famously covered Toto’s 1983 chart-topping hit “Africa,” yielding a fun music video with Weird Al ...

There was a whole thing back in the simpler time of 2018, when a social media campaign on the platform then known as Twitter had one sole purpose: convincing Weezer to cover Toto's "Africa." ...

Weezer covered Toto's "Africa" in 2018, but Steve Lukather thinks the song's unexpected success "blew up" in the band's face. By Tyler Jenke Weezer‘s cover of Toto‘s perennial favorite ...

including "Rosanna" and "Africa." Toto's musical contributions to the era are explored in depth in the new HBO film Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary, which is devoted to the retroactively named genre of ...

How does Weezer's Rivers Cuomo feel about "Africa" by Toto? Over six years after the "Island in the Sun" band released a cover of "Africa" in response to an internet campaign and subsequently ...