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 ...

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 ...

Weezer’s cover of Toto’s perennial favorite “Africa” undoubtedly became one of the band’s biggest successes, but Toto guitarist Steve Lukather isn’t sure the reasons behind the cover ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sharing his feelings about the cover, Lukather also commented, ““Our music has such little nuance. We spent so much meticulous time. These guys stood this shit up in an afternoon.” Toto’s ...

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." ...

The point of contention centers on Toto’s 1982 enduring hit, “Africa,” and Weezer’s cover of the song. In May 2018, a then-14-year-old Weezer fan built a social media campaign for the band ...

Since the mid-2010s, there has been a resurgence of soft-rock songs from the '70s and '80s, often referred to as "yacht rock" (think Toto's "Africa," Christopher ... an idea to put a band together ...