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Genre : Rock
Latest Release : Four Chords & Several Years Ago
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Huey Lewis
Huey Lewis and the News were a bar band that made good music. With their simple, straight-forward rock & roll, the San Francisco-based group became one of America's most popular pop-rock bands of the mid-'80s. Inspired e by British pub-rock and '60s R&B and rock & roll, the News had a driving, party-hearty spirit that made songs like "Workin' for a Livin'," "I Want a New Drug," "The Heart of Rock & Roll," "Hip to Be Square" and "The Power of Love" anthems. At their core, the group was a working band, and they knew how to target their audience, writing songs to 9-to-5 jobs and sports. As the decade moved forward, the group smoothed out their sound to appeal to the aging baby boomers that adopted them, but by the beginning of the '90s, the appeal of their method had decreased. Nevertheless, the group remained a popular concert attraction, and their continued to have radio hits on adult contemporary stations. Picture This, the group's second album, was released early in 1982 and the record became a hit on the strength of the Top Ten single "Do You Believe in Love," which was written by former Clover producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange.
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Artist Biography - Huey Lewis
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 Sports, the group's third album, was released in the fall of 1983 and it slowly became a multi-platinum success, thanks to touring and a series of clever, funny videos that received heavy MTV airplay. Sports climbed to number one in 1984, and it would eventually sell over seven million copies. Late in 1984, Lewis sued Ray Parker Jr., claiming that his song "Ghostbusters" plagiarized "I Want a New Drug." The suit was settled out of court. The News had their first number one single in 1985 with "The Power of Love," taken from the soundtrack to Back to the Future. Huey Lewis and the News returned with their fourth album, Fore!, in 1986. The record sailed to number one on the force of five Top Ten singles. The News took three years to follow up Small World with Hard at Play, which was released on their new label, EMI. Hard to Play failed to break the Top 20 and only produced one hit, "Couple Days Off." The group's commercial heyday had clearly passed, and the group took the remainder of the '90s rather easy, touring sporadically and releasing the covers album Four Chords & Several Years Ago in 1994. Their first release for Elektra Records, the album generated one adult contemporary radio hit, "But It's Alright," and failed to go gold.
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