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[[Boston (band)|Boston]] and [[Journey (band)|Journey]] may have arrived on the scene first, but there was no band that defined the [[AOR]] boom of the [[The Seventies|late seventies]] and [[The Eighties|early eighties]] quite like Toto.
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Their greatest success was 1982's ''Toto IV'', which included the number one hit "Africa" and the number two hit "Rosanna" and won six Grammy awards for the band. Kimball left shortly after and the band's fortunes declined somewhat, but they found a semi-permanent replacement in the form of another school friend named Joseph Williams, son of the prolific film composer [[John Williams]]. In spite of Jeff Porcaro's death as a result of heart failure brought on by cocaine use in 1992, the band continues to perform today (with Jeff's drumming role taken over by Simon Philips), sometimes with Kimball and sometimes with Williams.
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* [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]]: They're officially named after the dog from ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'', but stories went around for a long time that Bobby Kimball was actually a Cajun whose real name was Robert Toteaux and the band was named after him.
* [[The Band Minus the Face]]: Depending on the perspective of the individual fan, any line-up that lacks Bobby Kimball supplying lead vocals.
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