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When Toto<\/a> drummer Jeff Porcaro died in 1992, the remaining members remembered how much of an integral component he actually was.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not unusual for drummers to be unsung heroes, or figures resigned to the sidelines while other members take centre stage. But Porcaro\u2019s value in Toto was never understated, a fact that became even clearer after the strange circumstances of his passing. Conspiracies aside, however, the confusion was no match for the malaise of a group who suddenly felt, as Steve Lukather put it, \u201ctorn apart\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n When people think of the impact of Toto, their minds usually immediately go to the classic hit \u2018Africa\u2019. But what Toto \u2013 and Porcaro \u2013 achieved in the music was far more expansive, with Porcaro being both the glue and the driving force that meant they never settled when it came to creative expression. According to Lukather, Porcaro was \u201cour figurehead\u201d.<\/p>\n According to keyboardist David Paich, he was also the best drummer you could ask for, a \u201cwell-rounded musician\u201d who just knew exactly what to do, when to do it, and how. \u201cWe never had to talk much,\u201d said Paich. \u201cEverything was just understood. Our communication was non-verbal. It was mainly just eye contact between him and me. He was the brother I never had.\u201d<\/p>\n He also went on, recalling how a lot of their songs were \u201cone-takers\u201d because of Porcaro. \u2018Rosanna\u2019, for one, was done entirely in a single take. While sometimes, the others would have to re-record their parts, Porcaro was usually on form on the first go, never having to re-do anything because it was already exactly what they needed the first time around.<\/p>\n Porcaro passed away one month before the release of the band\u2019s Kingdom of Desire. They\u2019d been in rehearsals when it happened, and didn\u2019t re-group for another record until 1995\u2019s Tambu. But when they did, they felt it only right to pay tribute to their late member with the aptly titled \u2018I Will Remember\u2019. Written by Lukather as a tribute to the \u201cbrother I never had\u201d, \u2018I Will Remember\u2019 was Lukather\u2019s way of remembering Porcaro while saying that his memory<\/a> will live on.\u00a0<\/p>\n Years on, Lukather continues to prove just how much of that is actually true. Back in 2015, he recalled how deaths like Porcaro\u2019s set off a butterfly effect because of how many lives he touched. He also said how moments like those are what keep Toto constantly in orbit \u2013 even during breaks. When you face loss, as Lukather explains, it pulls other things closer together, reinstating the magic that people like Porcaro sparked along the way.<\/p>\n As he put it, \u201cSomething keeps drawing us back together. The band should\u2019ve been toast a long time ago, but something keeps bringing us back, bringing the core of us back together again. And somehow we\u2019re getting another look now, and the success is growing, not fading away.\u201d<\/p>\n This is also something he touched upon in the lyrics to \u2018I Will Remember\u2019: \u201cEven when love has come and gone \/ And our hearts have moved along \/ I will remember \/ There was a time we had the trust \/ And that always was enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ K\u00e5re Eide \/ The National Library) Thu 30 October 2025 10:00, UK When Toto…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,99316,128,99317,95487,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-234068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jeff-porcaro","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-steve-lukather","12":"tag-toto","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}