Toto - The Collection 1978-1988 - 7CD+DVD 2008 torrent

Toto was formed in Los Angeles in 1978 by David Paich (b. June 21, 1954, Los Angeles, keyboards, vocals), Steve Lukather (b. October 21, 1957, Los Angeles, guitar, vocals), Bobby Kimball (b. Robert Toteaux, March 29, 1947, Vinton, LA, vocals), Steve Porcaro (b. September 2, 1957, Connecticut, keyboards), David Hungate (b. Texas, bass), and Jeff Porcaro (b. April 1, 1954, Hartford, CT, d. August 5, 1992, Hidden Hills, CA. drums).

Toto released its self-titled debut album in October 1978, and it hit the Top Ten, sold two-million copies, and spawned the gold Top Ten single Hold the Line. The gold-selling Hydra (October 1979) and Turn Back (January 1981) were less successful, but Toto IV (April 1982) was a multi-platinum Top Ten hit, featuring the number-one hit Africa and the Top Tens Rosanna (about Lukather's girlfriend, movie star Rosanna Arquette) and I Won't Hold You Back. At the 1982 Grammys, Rosanna won awards for Record of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Performance, and Best Instrumental Arrangement With Vocal; and Toto IV won awards for Album of the Year, Best Engineered Recording, and Best Producer (the group). In 1984, a third Porcaro brother, Mike (b. May 29, 1955), joined the group on bass, replacing Hungate. Then lead singer Kimball quit and was replaced by Dennis Fergie Frederiksen (b. May 15, 1951, Wyoming, MI).

Toto's fifth album, Isolation (November 1984), went gold, but was a commercial disappointment. Frederiksen was replaced by Joseph Williams (b. Santa Monica), the son of the conductor/composer John Williams, for Fahrenheit (August 1986). Steve Porcaro quit in 1988, prior to the release of The Seventh One. (allmusic.com)

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This 2008 eight disc box set features seven Toto albums packaged in miniature LP sleeves, all beautifully housed in a deluxe card box case along with the Greatest Hits Live & More DVD. Features their seven original albums for Columbia from their 1978 debut straight through to The Seventh One (1988).

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Toto - The Collection 1978-1988
(7CD+DVD Sony/BMG 2008)

CD1 Toto - Toto 1978
CD2 Toto - Hydra 1979
CD3 Toto - Turn Back 1981
CD4 Toto - Toto IV 1982
CD5 Toto - Isolation 1984
CD6 Toto - Fahrenheit 1986
CD7 Toto - The Seventh One 1988
DVD - Greatest Hits Live and More