Weezer and Toto: the inside story of music’s unlikely love-in

The two bands have released reciprocal covers of each other’s hits, Hash Pipe and Africa. Toto’s guitarist, Steve Porcaro, reveals how it happenedIt is surely the weirdest musical love-in of the year. Geeky emo/power-pop kingpins Weezer covered Toto’s 80s megahit Africa, a love story about the continent, and, in return, the West Coast AOR veterans have covered Weezer’s 2001 hit Hash Pipe, a song about a transvestite sex worker.This improbable meeting of minds began in...

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