Biography

Huey Lewis & the News is an Academy Award-nominated American rock band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, scoring a total of 19 top-ten singles across the US Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Mainstream Rock charts. Their greatest success was with their number-one album, Sports. Their worldwide fame expanded when their recording of “The Power of Love” was featured as a key track in the 1985 movie “Back to the Future” (in which Lewis made a cameo appearance). The song became a number-one hit, and was nominated for an Academy Award.

From a first single in 1979, and by combining a rock (and sometimes, a blues rock) backing with harmony vocals and Lewis’s voice, the band 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
Small World (1988) #11 US Platinum
Hard at Play (1991) #27 US Gold
The Heart Of Rock & Roll - The Best Of Huey Lewis And The News (1992)
Four Chords & Several Years Ago (1994) #55 US
Time Flies: The Best of Huey Lewis and the News (1996) #185 US
Plan B (2001) #165 US
Live at 25 (2005)
Greatest Hits & Videos (2006) #70 US

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