Description
TOTO Make Believe (1982 UK CBS white with red ‘A’ demo label 2-track 7″ vinyl single, also including We Made It – A2868).
Tracklisting:
1. Make Believe 3:41
2. We Made It 3:49
“Make Believe” is a hit by the American Rock band Toto, released as the second single from their Triple Platinum 1982 album Toto IV. It peaked at #19 in Cash Box magazine and at #30 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The song was featured on the soundtrack for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
Toto
Bobby Kimball – lead and backing vocals
Steve Lukather – guitars, backing vocal
David Paich – pianos, synthesizer, backing vocal
Steve Porcaro – synthesizer
David Hungate – bass
Jeff Porcaro – drums, percussion
Additional musicians:
Tom Kelly – backing vocal
Jon Smith – saxophone
Songfacts®:
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Bobby Kimball sings lead vocals on this one, but Toto’s main songwriter David Paich wrote the tune. In the song, Kimball’s asking a lover to pretend they’re in love again. There’s some indication the story is autobiographical and not just a work of poetic fancy, with the very specific detail in the lines:
Always remember the day we met in the foreign ran
You were content and we went our separate waysThe idea’s not far outside the realm of possibility, as Paich wrote “Rosanna” about one of his own first loves.
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