DRUMS WEEK 2025: Back in 1982, the band Toto released their fourth album - the imaginatively titled Toto IV - but despite the deceptively uninspired sequential branding, drummers and other musicians ...

People say that even without Toto, Jeff Porcaro would've cemented his place in music history because of the high caliber of his drumming. It's said to have defined much of the music produced in the ...

On 5 August 1992, the drumming - and wider musical - world lost one of its all-time greats. Jeff Porcaro was born into one an incredibly gifted musical family, his father Joe was a hugely successful ...

Porcaro was 17 when he got his first major music gig, playing drums in Sonny & Cher’s touring band. Among his early recording credits were Steely Dan’s 1975 album Katy Lied and Boz Scaggs’ smash 1976 ...

Drummer Jeff Porcaro of the Grammy-winning rock band Toto died Wednesday of a heart attack after an apparent allergic reaction to pesticides he was using in his yard, his manager said Thursday.