Huey Lewis honors Mill Valley’s Austin De Lone Huey:Sad news. Local musician Austin de Lone passed away yesterday. He was beloved. A great talent, a great person, and true friend to everyone in the music scene. He played with everyone from Elvis Costello to Jerry Garcia, and was the ...
Every rom-com needs a great song list. In the Huey Lewis and the News jukebox musicalThe Heart of Rock and Roll, the band's hit songs from the '80s are seamlessly threaded into the lighthearted love story of coworkers Bobby (Corey Cott) and Cassandra (McKenzie Kurtz...
Lewis always used his pop instincts to metamorphose music of the past with his band, the News, and give it a modern edge, which resulted in a prolific streak of hits throughout the ’80s. Some say his tunes are so catchy, so hip, that they can ax businessmen to death to them. “I...
AsHuey Lewisand the News approached their fourth album, they were teed up for more success — or a shank into the woods. Fore!, released in the summer of 1986, changed the rules for Lewis and his seven-year-old Bay Area band. "We had never released a record to any expectations befor...
I am a huge Huey Lewis and the News fan along with Disney. When the movie came out for Oliver and Company, I remember jumping up and down in the movie theater, cause I knew that was Huey’s voice singing “Once Upon a Time in New York City.” (Mind you I was 9 at the time....
Lewis was hard at work on the first album of originalHuey Lewis and the Newssongs since 2001’sPlan B. New music hadn’t been a priority for him in quite a while. His most recent Top 40 hit was 1991’s “It Hit Me Like a Hammer,” and he had more than enough classics to fill ...