Weezer comprises (from left) Brian Bell, Rivers Cuomo, Scott Shriner, and Patrick Wilson. Photo: AP
It started on Twitter, as these things often do.
A then-14-year-old Weezer fan named Mary (@weezerafrica) began a public campaign to persuade the alt-rock band to cover the 1982 Toto hit Africa. For months, she kept at it, tweeting at the band’s members: When would they bless the rains down in Africa?
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