TOTO became popular worldwide with their fourth album `Toto IV' (1982), for which they received platinum awards in several countries.

In particular, the hits `Rosanna' and `Africa' on the album finally gave the band the status of a world-class, radio-friendly AOR band.

The album sold millions of copies until 1983 and the band received a total of six Grammys.

Available for the first time as a remaster via Rock Candy, with extensive liner notes, new mastering in 24 BIT and rare archive images in the booklet.

Toto needed the next step with their fourth album, and they rose to the challenge. Largely dispensing with the anonymous studio rock that had characterized their first three releases, the band worked harder on its melodies, made sure its simple lyrics treated romantic subjects, augmented Bobby Kimball's vocals by having other group members sing, brought in ringers like Timothy B.

Schmit, and slowed down the tempo to what came to be known as "power ballad" pace. Most of all, they wrote some hit songs: "Rosanna," the old story of a lovelorn lyric matched to a bouncy beat, was the gold, Top Ten comeback single accompanying the album release; "Make Believe" made the Top 30; and then, surprisingly, "Africa" hit number one ten months after the album's release.

Toto IV was both the group's break-thru and its peak; it remains a definitive album of slick L.A.

pop for the early '80s and it's legacy is - as we know - an ongoing one.