“Along with Journey, REO Speedwagon and Foreigner, we’d been lumped-in with the whole Corporate Rawk thing. We weren’t ‘cool’": Steve Porcaro on the rise, fall and resurgence of Toto, working with Michael Jackson and his new solo album

Steve Porcaro.

"Every day at 4pm, Michael would schedule a singing lesson," says Steve Porcaro, remembering the time he was working on Michael Jackson"s monumental Thriller album in the early ‘80s. "Even though he’d just completed an amazing vocal performance on what became the best-selling album of all time, Michael was still keen to push himself... to go further."

Porcaro, perhaps best known as the keyboard/synth dude with the multi-platinum band Toto, played on several Thriller tracks – as well as co-writing Human Nature – and had also worked on Jackson's previous release, Off The Wall.