While it's common knowledge that Edward Van Halen played the scorching guitar solo on Michael Jackson's "Beat It," it was Steve who provided the driving riff that underscores the main body of the song.
Steve has admitted that he has never liked the name TOTO for the very band that made him famous. When starting out with fellow band members, they somehow got branded with this name and it just stuck. In high school his band was called "Still Life".