Artist
Huey Lewis and the News
Huey Lewis and the News is a rock artist from San Francisco, USA formed in 1978. 19 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock · San Francisco, USA · Best rock albums
- 19
- Releases
- 1980–2021
- Active years
- 1978
- Formed
Artist
Huey Lewis and the News is a rock artist from San Francisco, USA formed in 1978. 19 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock · San Francisco, USA · Best rock albums
Most popular
Weather
2020
Hold The Front Page (Live 1991)
2021
Collected
2017
Soulsville
2010
Greatest Hits
2006
Plan B
2001
The Heart of Rock & Roll
2000
36 All Time Greatest Hits
1998
Time Flies... The Best of Huey Lewis & The News
1996
Four Chords & Several Years Ago
1994
The Heart of Rock & Roll: The Best of Huey Lewis & The News
1992
Hard at Play
1991
Small World
1988
Fore!
1986
Sports
1983
Picture This
1982
Huey Lewis and The News
1980
Huey Lewis and the News is an American rock band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually scoring a total of 19 top-ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Mainstream Rock charts. Their greatest success was in the 1980s with the number-one album, Sports, coupled with a series of highly successful MTV videos. Their worldwide fame expanded when the song "The Power of Love" was featured as a key track in the film Back to the Future, became a number-one hit, and nominated for an Academy Award. The News combined a rock (and sometimes, a "blues-rock") backing with soul and doo-wop-influenced harmony vocals and Lewis' voice. In 1972, singer/harmonica player Huey Lewis and keyboardist Sean Hopper joined the Bay Area jazz-funk band Clover. Clover recorded several albums in the 1970s, and in the middle of the decade transplanted themselves to England to become part of the UK pub rock scene for a time. Without Lewis (but with Hopper), they eventually became the original backing band for Elvis Costello's first album My Aim Is True. Lewis also worked with Irish band Thin Lizzy, contributing harmonica …
