Huey Lewis & the News
| Huey Lewis and the News | |
|---|---|
 original band logo |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | skirt |
| founding | 1979 |
| Website | hueylewisandthenews.com |
| Founding members | |
| Huey Lewis | |
| Chris Hayes | |
Saxophone , guitar |
Johnny Colla |
| Mario Cipollina | |
| Sean Hopper | |
| Bill Gibson | |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals, harmonica |
Huey Lewis |
Guitar, saxophone |
Johnny Colla |
guitar |
Stef Burns |
bass |
John Pierce |
Keyboards |
Sean Hopper |
Drums, percussion |
Bill Gibson |
Trumpet |
Marvin McFadden |
Tenor saxophone |
Rob Sudduth |
Alto saxophone, tenor saxophone |
Johnnie Bamont |
| former members | |
saxophone |
Ron Stallings († 2009) |
guitar |
Chris Hayes (1979-2000) |
bass |
Mario Cipollina (1979–1994) |
Huey Lewis & the News is an American rock band around the singer Huey Lewis , which was particularly successful from 1982 to 1991.
Band history
The band was formed in 1979 through the merger of members of the groups Clover , to which Huey Lewis had been a member since 1971 and Sean Hopper (keyboard) since 1972, and Sound Hole , from Johnny Colla (saxophone / guitar), Bill Gibson (percussion) and Mario Cipollina (bass) came. The group brought in Chris Hayes (guitar) in 1980 and thus formed Huey Lewis and the American Express . The group was represented in business by Bob Brown, who is still their manager today, and got a record deal with Chrysalis Records . However, the label insisted on a name change. At the suggestion of Bob Brown, the group then renamed itself to Huey Lewis and the News .
They published Huey Lewis and the News in mid-1980 and Picture This in early 1982 . Picture This included the title Tattoo (Giving It All Up for Love) , written by Phil Lynott and published on his solo album Solo in Soho in 1980. Sports appeared in 1983 with the hits The Heart of Rock & Roll and I Want a New Drug and the cover version of the Hank Williams piece Honky Tonk Blues . The album went platinum several times in the US, most recently on July 20, 1987. With him, they earned recognition outside of the USA for the first time. Sports is the band's most successful album to date. Even at that time belonged to Curtis Mayfield -Titel It's All Right to Live program with which the band their a cappella set qualities to the test.
In the summer of 1985, Huey Lewis & the News delivered two hits for the feature film Back to the Future with The Power of Love (number one hit in the USA and nominated for an Oscar , a Golden Globe and a Grammy in 1986) and Back in Time , in which Huey Lewis also has a small guest appearance. A music video was also produced for The Power of Love , starring Christopher Lloyd (who plays Doc Brown in the film) and De Lorean .
In the late summer of 1986, Fore! (named after a golf term) that featured hits The Power of Love , Stuck With You and Jacob's Ladder (written by Bruce Hornsby ). The track Naturally showed for the first time on a studio album the a cappella skills of the group, which released the album Small World in the summer of 1988 . Hard at Play came out in the spring of 1991 .
In the spring of 1994 the group released the album Four Chords & Several Years Ago , a tribute to the classics of rhythm and blues . All tracks were recorded with original recording technology ( amplifiers , microphones , tape recorders ) from the 1950s in the studio "The Site" in San Rafael ( California ), and the band recorded all tracks live together.
In 1999 Chrysalis released a digitally remastered version of the Sports album . The album also contained five previously unreleased versions of well-known songs from the album, namely two so-called "session takes" ( The Heart of Rock & Roll and Walkin 'on a Thin Line ) as well as live versions of If This Is It and Heart and Soul , both recorded on February 21, 1985 in San Francisco , and I Want a New Drug , recorded on January 15, 1984 in Los Angeles .
In 2000, after a long period of time, the group performed again in Germany, including on June 20 in the BeatBox at the world exhibition "Expo" in Hanover . The concert opened with We're not Here for a Long Time (We're Here for a Good Time) ; this title was first published a year later on Plan B. After 2000 the band has not had any more performances in Germany.
In May 2001 the next really new album was released with Plan B. In 2004, a DVD was released with two concerts in Germany that had been recorded as part of the TV program Rockpalast . These were the concerts from Essen's Grugahalle in 1984 and the Cologne E-Werk in 1991. On the occasion of the group's 25th anniversary in 2004, there was also a major US tour. You can find excerpts from it on the live album and the live DVD Live at 25 . The songs on it, mostly a live compilation of the greatest hits, were recorded on December 14th and 15th, 2004 at two appearances in the town of Chico in native California.
The group has meanwhile expanded in terms of personnel: The News Brothers ( Marvin McFadden , Ron Stallings and Rob Sudduth ) have their own brass section - Tower of Power was the brass section on many earlier songs . Mario Cipollina made way for the well-known studio musician John Pierce on bass in 1994 . In 2000 long-time composer and guitarist Chris Hayes left the band for family reasons; Stef Burns has been with him ever since . Chris Hayes still worked on the 2001 album Plan B and occasionally jumps in for Stef Burns when he is unable to perform live.
In 2008, Huey Lewis accepted the assignment to write a song for the film Pineapple Express , which should be kept in the sound of the band's 1980s works. It should also reflect the plot of the film and include the title of the film as often as possible. In collaboration with Johnny Colla and David Fredericks, the song Pineapple Express was created , which was released as part of the soundtrack on August 5, 2008.
On April 13, 2009 the saxophonist Ron Stallings died. His place was taken by Johnnie Bamont , who had performed occasionally with the band since 1998.
In October 2010, the album Soulsville was released in Europe , which the group had recorded in the Ardent Studios in Memphis ( Tennessee ). Huey Lewis and the News paid tribute to their musical idols , as they had done in 1994 with Four Chords & Several Years Ago . However, this time the group did not concentrate on rhythm and blues, but on soul classics. All recordings took place live with the band members and were recorded analogue , i.e. on tape . The album only reached number 121 on the Billboard 200, but made it to number 18 on the Billboard “Adult Contemporary” and number 15 on the Billboard “R & B / HipHop” charts. The band dedicated the album to the memory of Ron Stallings.
In May 2018, all Huey Lewis & The News tours were canceled after Lewis, who had suffered from Menière's disease since 1985 , lost his remaining hearing before a concert in Dallas . He explained that since then he has sometimes been able to hear, sometimes not, and that he can only perceive music as noise.
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 1982 | Picture This | - | - | - | - |
US116  (59 weeks)US |
First published: January 29, 1982
Producer: Huey Lewis and the News |
| 1983 | Sports |
DE29 (12 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK23 (24 weeks)UK |
US1  × 7
(160 weeks)US |
First published: September 15, 1983
Producers: Huey Lewis and the News Chart entry DE: 12/1984 / UK: 09/1985 |
| 1986 | Fore! |
DE5 (30 weeks)DE |
AT22 (4 weeks) AT |
CH4 (17 weeks) CH |
UK8th × 2
(52 weeks)UK |
US1 × 3
(61 weeks)US |
First published: August 20, 1986
Producer: Huey Lewis and the News |
| 1988 | Small World |
DE8 (18 weeks) DE |
- |
CH10 (13 weeks) CH |
UK12 (8 weeks)UK |
US11 (30 weeks)US |
First published: June 1988
Producer: Huey Lewis and the News |
| 1991 | Hard at play |
DE14 (24 weeks) DE |
- |
CH9 (12 weeks) CH |
UK39 (2 weeks) UK |
US27 (27 weeks)US |
First published: May 7, 1991
Producers: Bill Schnee, Huey Lewis and the News |
| 1994 | Four Chords & Several Years Ago |
DE46 (9 weeks) DE |
- |
CH21 (4 weeks) CH |
- |
US55 (21 weeks) US |
First published: May 10, 1994
Producer: Stewart Levine |
| 2001 | Plan B | - | - | - | - |
US165 (1 week) US |
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| 2010 | Soulsville | - | - | - | - |
US121 (1 week) US |
First published: October 18, 2010
Producers: Jim Gaines, Huey Lewis and the News |
| 2020 | Weather |
DE21 (2 weeks) DE |
- |
CH13 (1 week) CH |
- |
US71 (1 week) US |
First published: February 14, 2020
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gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
More albums
- 1980: Huey Lewis and the News (release: June 25)
- 2005: Live at 25 (live album; release: May 17th)
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- ↑ Huey Lewis biography on hln.org ( Memento from May 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Entry in the allmusic database
- ↑ Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) online database
- ^ DVD Huey Lewis and the News at Rockpalast ; WDR, EAN : 4 031778 330057
- ↑ Liner Notes for Four Chords and Several Years ago
- ↑ Research on Songkick.com
- ↑ "Our only input was, we told him we wanted it to sound like his 80s work that we loved so much. And we wanted to have the plot in it. And we wanted to have him say the title as many times as he could . There is a lot of alto sax. " firstshowing.net , accessed May 28, 2016
- ^ Billboard, December 2, 2010
- ↑ a b Humble and grateful in: Rocks - The magazine for Classic Rock, issue 02.2020, pages 72 & 73
- ↑ Chart sources: Singles Albums DE UK US
Web links
- Huey Lewis & the News at Allmusic (English)
- Official website
- Huey Lewis & the News at Musik-Sammler.de