Toto members David Paich and Jeff Porcaro wrote “Africa,” the band’s immortal 1982 chart-topper, because Paich had just seen a late-night TV documentary about poverty in Africa and because he was excited to try out the horn sounds that he could make on a new polyphonic keyboard that he’d just bought. Paich and Porcaro had never been to Africa when the wrote the song. Also, when the two of them wrote the song, they were not sitting in a UK burger bar that didn’t open this decade. That burger bar does have a plaque saying otherwise, but it’s supposed to be a joke.
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