more Weezer-y sound. “8 Days a Week” was written around the guitar hook in the middle of the song. We have a running joke about songs being too long and decided to do something about it!

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 ...

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 ...

Virtually everything about Weezer covering Toto’s “Africa ... “I don’t know about him loving the song, man,” Lukather said in a 2025 interview with 99.5 KLOS host Matt Pinfield.

When Pinfield mentioned Rivers Cuomo’s love for “Africa,” Lukather asserted that Weezer’s recording did not come from a loving place. “I don’t know about him loving the song ...

Green Day, Noah Kahan, and Fall Out Boy and Weezer will headline the three-day Oceans Calling Festival in Ocean City, Maryland, this September. Tickets for the pop-punk-alternative boardwalk festival ...

"I don’t know about him loving the song, man," said Steve Lukather of ... Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty; Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty How does Weezer's Rivers Cuomo feel about "Africa" by Toto?

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