Sportswas Huey Lewis & the News’ first number-one album and featured four Top 10 hits: “Heart and Soul,”“The Heart of Rock & Roll,”“I Want A New Drug” and “If This Is It,” with the fifth single, “Walking on a Thin Line,” hitting the Top 20. Launching itself...
Huey Lewis Finally Gets To See His Songs on Broadway — Even If He Can't Always Hear Them Between two musicals that use this tunes and an appearance in the "We Are the World" doc, Lewis is having a moment On With the Show By David Browne Huey Lewis and the News Musical Will...
FILE - Musician Huey Lewis attends the “Back To The Future” 25th anniversary reunion in New York on Oct. 25, 2010. Lewis, who with his band The News stormed radio in the 1980s with such rock-pop hits as “The Power of Love” and “I Want a New Drug,” is about to...
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...
Huey Lewis & The News had 12 top 10 Billboard hits on the Hot 100 and three that made No. 1. They won a Grammy Award, for best music video for “The Heart if Rock ‘n’ Roll,” and “The Power of Love” was nominated for an Academy Award. ...
The critically acclaimed jukebox musical rom-com rocks with dozens of Huey Lewis and the News hits including "The Power of Love" and "Stuck With You." Read more on New York Theatre Guide.
“Workin’ for a Livin’” would peak at Number 19, taking it one spot higher than the highest position the Lewis original had achieved on Billboard’s Top Tracks (now Mainstream Rock) survey in 1982. For Brooks, it was his highest-charted single for a decade, until 2017’s “Ask ...
“Bill Schnee produced it and it died. But I really bullied Schnee – it was really my fault to be honest,” Lewis said back then. “I thought if we ran in there and resisted the [traditional] recording process and [worked] fast with everything, that we’d have a live-sounding recor...
Huey Lewis & the News were riding high on the charts when they decided to expand their musical reach with 1988's Small World, dipping tentatively into various American roots musics. While the record produced the Top Ten hit "Perfect World," it was a commercial disappointment after two chart-...
Lewis and the News are now on hold, due to Lewis'battle with Meniere's disease, which has rendered him unable to perform. ButFore!, along withSports, ranks as a high point in a career with no shortage of them. For the leader, those were more happy accidents than intended results. ...