Stop Loving You

"Stop Loving You"
Single by Toto
from the album The Seventh One
B-side "The Seventh One"
Released 1988
Format CD / 7" / 12"
Recorded 1988
Genre Pop rock
Length 4 min, 30 sec
Label Columbia Records
Writer(s) David Paich, Steve Lukather[1]
Producer Toto

Stop Loving you is a song from the rock band Toto from their album The Seventh One. Initially recorded by Joseph Williams and, during choruses, Jon Anderson on backing vocals, it was passed on to Tony Spinner in 2002.[2] As a single, it peaked at no. 2 on the Dutch charts[3] and no. 96 on the UK charts in 1988.

Contents

Charts

Chart (1988) Peak
position
Belgian VRT Top 30 3
Dutch Top 40[4] 2
Euro Hit 40 10
Italian Singles Chart 37
Norwegian Singles Chart[4] 9
Polish Singles Chart 4
UK Singles Chart 96

Year-End Chart

Chart (1988) Peak
position
Dutch Top 40 6
Belgian VRT Top 30 19

Music video

A music video was produced for this song showing Joseph Williams kicking furniture and pushing away other objects in a building, displaying his disgust at the loss of a girlfriend. At the end, a female calls and says, "Joseph, are you there?"

Falling In Between Album and DVD

For their live album, Falling in Between Live and final concerts, Toto performed this song with Tony Spinner turning it into a semi jazz version.

References

  1. ^ http://www.toto99.com/releases/toto/seventhrelease.shtml
  2. ^ http://www.toto99.com/totospeaks/interviews/tony.shtml
  3. ^ http://www.dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Toto&titel=Stop+Loving+You&cat=s Dutch charts
  4. ^ a b http://norwegiancharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Toto&titel=Stop+Loving+You&cat=s