Between his Broadway musical and ‘The Greatest Night in Pop,’ it’s been a fabulous 2024 for Huey Lewis. In our newest Superlatives column, the musician reflects on his band’s legacy: ‘We were always told that we weren’t edgy enough.’
"We were just grooving so hard throughSports," Lewis recalled. "We were like, 'Yeah, we'll write 10 songs, no problem.' Suddenly it becomes, 'Yep, time to make a record,' and we had come off the road and all had families we wanted to be with. So we got together, and in thre...
Now that decades have passed, I am loving the big hits from that album again. While I am talking about Huey Lewis and the News, I need to mention that they have just released a brand new album,Weather. It is their first studio album of original material in 19 years, and it is incre...
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 Kur...
Lewis clarified that the tape is likely not lost for good — just buried somewhere in his archives. "[It's] part of my cassette collection when there's thousands of cassettes there," he said. "I could probably find it eventually." ...
Lewis has tweaked some song lyrics to make them able to be sung by different people and in contexts he never initially anticipated. “The fun part of that is being able to hear these songs that we wrote tell a new story in a completely different way,” he said. ...
Lewis has tweaked some song lyrics to make them able to be sung by different people and in contexts he never initially anticipated. “The fun part of that is being able to hear these songs that we wrote tell a new story in a completely different way,” he said. ...
Huey Lewis LEAD VOCALS, HARMONICA – Huey was born a long time ago in New York City. He moved to Marin County, California when he was 4 years old (better sandboxes!). At the tender age of 13, he went east to boarding school at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, where he began...
MarketWatch: Did you ever think back in your rock heyday that you’d have not one but two Broadway shows that incorporate your songs? Lewis: Of course not. The curious thing is that the “Back to the Future” finale is “Power of Love,” and ...
“The label initially wanted to add more songs [from earlier points in my career],” says Lewis. “I said to them, ‘Why poison the water? This is a body of work. Why contaminate it? Who cares about the number of songs? And if it’s just seven songs because I can’t sing ...