Huey Lewis & The News

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San Francisco, United States (1980 – present)

Huey Lewis & the News is a Academy Award-nominated American band based in San Francisco, California. Their greatest success was in the 1980s, when they were one of the most popular music acts of the decade and released several gold and platinum albums. The band is known for writing simple, light-hearted songs from a working-class perspective and typically appealed to yuppies and baby boomers.

Combining a rock (and sometimes, a ) backing with harmony vocals and Lewis’s voice, Huey Lewis & the News had numerous hit songs during the 1980s and early 1990s, including “The Power Of Love” and “Back in Time” (both of which were featured in the film “Back to the Future”), “I Want a New Drug”, “Doin’ It All (For My Baby)”, “Do You Believe in Love?” “Hip to Be Square”, “Stuck With You”, and “Jacob’s Ladder”. Huey Lewis shared three Grammy awards, an American Music Award, and a People’s Choice Award along with several artists for his role singing the 1985 charity song “We Are the World”.

The track ‘Hip to Be Square” features prominently in the 2000 movie “American Psycho”, starring Christian Bale as serial killer Patrick Bateman. In both the film and the book it was based on, Bateman is a hardcore fan of the band.

Albums
Huey Lewis & the News (1980)
Picture This (1982) #13 US Gold
Sports (1983) #1 US 7x Platinum
Back to the Future Soundtrack (1985) Gold
Fore! (1986) #1 US 3x Platinum
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    "I want to play a game" [32]

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  • True_Indie wrote:
    last week
    Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humour. [30] I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself. [6] Hey, Paul! [4]

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    last month
    top stuff

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  • agukrapo wrote:
    December 2011
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  • c0olz wrote:
    December 2011
    Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humour. [29] I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself. [5] Hey, Paul! [3]

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  • Wooshmeister wrote:
    November 2011
    Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humour. [28] I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself. [4] Hey, Paul! [2]

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  • Mournheim wrote:
    November 2011
    Try getting a reservation at Dorsia's now you fucking bastards.

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  • Sunako-Bat wrote:
    November 2011
    Most of their songs, concerning listeners, are in the low hundreds?! COME ON PEOPLE!

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  • Moner767 wrote:
    November 2011
    Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humour. [27] I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself. [3] Hey, Paul!

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  • Pimm wrote:
    October 2011
    I'm afraid you're just too darn loud. Next, please. [3]

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  • hedphylem wrote:
    October 2011
    Sports was a breakthrough for Huey Lewis & The News, commercially as well as artistically.

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  • CarlaSitt wrote:
    October 2011
    Feel the power of love... Can you feel it? ♥

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  • meanmrmustard wrote:
    September 2011
    Some of them are Back to the Future quotes.

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  • 3amConspiracy wrote:
    September 2011
    If this is it , Please let me know If this ain't love you'd better let me know If this is it, I want to know If this ain't love baby, just say so

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  • cthomas2 wrote:
    September 2011
    if I had to pick one song, their undisputed masterpiece is "hip to be square." I think I'm the only one that thinks that though.

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  • promisedeyes wrote:
    August 2011
    I'm afraid you're just too darn loud. Next, please. [2]

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  • RottingGrass wrote:
    August 2011
    So god damn 80s.

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  • ParadiseCove wrote:
    August 2011
    With a name like KrapaKrapov , what do you expect ! !

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  • Kali0str0 wrote:
    July 2011
    Авесом Бенд!

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  • KrapaKrapov wrote:
    July 2011
    I hate that this shoutbox is filled with American Psycho quotes [2] Most people here are stupid parrots.

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