How Toto Turned a Shelved Instrumental into the #1 Hit “Africa”
Professor of Rock · Gamut Podcast Network
September 29, 202318m 18s
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Show Notes
Glam Metal band Europe wrote a keyboard instrumental to be the opening music for their live shows…to play while they were walking out on stage… Then half the band HATED it…and they actually shelved it for 5 years. Then they needed a song for their next album and dusted it off thinking it would be no more than a filler track. It not only became their signature song.. it became a stadium rock anthem that would rule our culture and it’s still killing it. The story of Europe and their hit the Final Countdown that ruled 1986 and 1987.
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