"Stop Loving You" is a song from the rock band Toto from their album The Seventh One. It was released as the first single from the album in Europe, peaking at No. 2 in The Netherlands and Belgium. Jon Anderson is featured on backing vocals.
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. The band together performs in other parts of the video. At the end of the video, a woman calls and asks, "Joseph, are you there?"
Personnel
Toto
Joseph Williams – lead and backing vocals
Steve Lukather – lead and rhythm guitars, backing vocals
David Paich – keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals
Mike Porcaro – bass guitar
Jeff Porcaro – drums, percussion
Additional musicians
Jon Anderson – backing vocals
Michael G. Fisher – percussion
Bill Payne – synthesizers
Tom Scott – horn arrangements
Chuck Findley, Gary Grant, Gary Herbig, Jerry Hey, James Pankow and Tom Scott – horns
Charts
Year-End Chart
Live versions
With original lead vocalist Joseph Williams having left the group not long after the song's recording, lead vocal duties on the song were passed on to Tony Spinner in 2002. Before that many touring members had sung the song on Toto's live concerts. For their live album, Falling in Between Live and final concerts, Toto performed a semi jazz version of the song.
Since Williams's return in 2010, "Stop Loving You" has since appeared on 35th Anniversary Tour and 40 Trips Around the Sun, two live albums released in 2014 and 2018 respectively.